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Old 08-30-2008
dynamox dynamox is offline
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perl regular expressions and field search

Hello guys/gals,

i am sorry as this is probably very simply but i am slowly learning perl and need to convert some old korn shell scripts.

I need to be able to search a file line by line but only match a string at particular location on that line, for example character 20-30. So my file could look something like this:

Code:
apple orange apple
         apple potato apple
         tomato flower orange
i want to be able to search this file for string "orange" but i only want to search for this string at particular position, say from character 7-13. I am used to in bash i can use |awk '{print $2)' to get my second field ..but how would i do it in perl using regular expressions ?

Thanks a bunch