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Old 06-30-2009
Gussifinknottle Gussifinknottle is offline
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Question remove characters from line
Hello,

I have multiple lines in a file, each of which will have data that looks like this:

xxxxxyyyyzzzz4abcdXYZXYZXYZ
pqrstPQRST2cdPQRSTPQRST
lmnopqr6abcdefgRST.3abc

I want to be able to remove the number 4 + the following 4 characters (abcd) in the first line.

For the second line, I want to be able to remove 2 + the following 2 characters (cd)

Basically, remove the number and the number of characters matching the number removed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
G.