I answered a question on Mathematics Stack Exchange and gained around 80 reputation from it. This was the first time I gained points and earned a decent number of privileges.  But now that question was deleted and I lost so many points (almost 3/4 of my total). And so many privileges were gone too.  Is there something I can do?
Today I lost 25 reputation points and I'm just curious why? Apparently it was an upvoted and accepted answer and I thought that questions with answers can't be deleted easily. Talking about the general case, when a question gets removed by a Moderator, I'd think it'd be unfair to lose the points, because one still took the time to answer the question and probably invested a significant amount of work.   Unfortunately I don't have a link to the question. All I have is this:        but the "link" to the question is not clickable.  A syntax error question is a bad example for "probably invested a significant amount of work", I know, but again, I'm just curious what happened and want to know, why one does loose the reputation points ?
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How to convert a 3 column csv file into a table (or matrix) I have an CSV input file format like this, with a nucleotide sequence in field 1, text in field 2, and an integer in field 4:  ATGC,CD3,56 ATGC,CD4,67 ATGC,IgD,126 ATGC,IgM,127 AGTC,CD3,67 AGTC,CD4,78 AGTC,IgD,102 AGTC,IgM,89 TCGA,CD3,334 TCGA,CD4,123 TCGA,IgD,456 TCGA,IgM,80 CGTA,CD3,54 CGTA,CD4,32 CGTA,IgD,82 CGTA,IgM,117   I opened this CSV file using Numbers in Mac it's display as 3 columns format, however, I want to convert it to the table(or Matrix) format (also a CSV file), making the first column, the nucleotide sequences, into a header, and want the result to also look like a table (or Matrix):       ATGC  AGTC  TCGA  CGTA CD3  56    67    334   54 CD4  67    78    123   32 IgD  126   102   456   82 IgM  127   89    80    117   Below is a section from my real input CSV file (sample input.txt):  AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,-,,38 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,AnnexinV,,51 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD127,,39 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD138,,3 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD14,,2 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD16,,4 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD19,,10 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD20,,6 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD24,,21 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD25,,4 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD27,,87 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD3,,235 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD34,,5 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD38,,18 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD4,,412 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD43,,99 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD5,,430 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD56,,3 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,CD8,,7 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,IgD,,4 AGAATAGTCTGATTCT,IgM,,2 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,-,,9 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,AnnexinV,,42 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,CD127,,6 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,CD138,,4 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,CD16,,40 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,CD19,,7 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,CD20,,2 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,CD24,,24 TGTGGTAGTTCGTCTC,CD25,,2   How can I do this using Linux text formatting commands? 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