Hi I have a text file that I want to change some of the characters based on their position. My file contain multiple lines and characters should be counted continuously line by line. For example, I want to convert the 150th T to C. What can I do? Here is a portion of my file:
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Hi ,
I am required to view the fixed postion file very often . I am looking for the utility like this
if the file has a one or multile line
abcdefghijklmnopqr
Utility should make my file look like this
12345678910111213141516--------------------------
abcdefghijk l m n o p q r ... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have an urgent task here. I am required to sort a flat file based on multiple columns which are based on the character position in that line. I am restricted to use the character position instead of the space and sort +1 +2 etc to do the sorting.
I understand that there is a previous... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have following format in file aaa with content below, and would like to seek help from forumer about how to change and swap the position on 2nd field.
5874957|901125|
95874960|650614|
95874966|870308|
901125 to be changed as 25-11-1990 for eg
Can someone help please ?? :)
... (6 Replies)
How to extract multiple data based on character position. I need to fetch from 7-9 and 22-26 and there is no delimiter for 22-26 since it is part of the column. The file may have more than 1000 character long.I managed to pull any one but not both
for example
test data
12345 zxc vbnmlk... (1 Reply)
Greetings,
We have a requirement where we need to loop in a fixed width file in linux and remove a character based on a position for every record. It would highly appreciate if someone can help to automate this.
Appreciate your time and help!
Regards (3 Replies)
Hi,
i want find the character '-' in a file from position 284-298, if it occurs i need to replace it with 'O ' for the position in the file. How to do that using SED command.
thanks in advance,
Sara (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am in need of help for the two things which is to be done.
First, I have a file that has around four columns. The first column is filled with letter "A".
There are around 400 lines in the files as shown below.
A 1 5.2 3.2
A 2 0.2 4.5
A 1 2.2 2.2
A 5 2.1 ... (2 Replies)
I have a requirement where i need to split a file based on occurence of a character which is present at a fixed position. Description is as below:
1. The file will be more than 1 Lakh records.
2. Each line will be of fixed length of 987 characters.
3. At position 28 in each line either 'C' or... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with multiple lines(fixed width dat file). I want to search for '02' in the positions 45-46 and if available, in that lines, I need to replace value in position 359 with blank. As I am new to unix, I am not able to figure out how to do this. Can you please help me to achieve... (9 Replies)
I will appreciate if you help me here in this script in Solaris Enviroment.
Scenario:
i have 2 files :
1) /tmp/TRANSACTIONS_DAILY_20180730.txt:
201807300000000004
201807300000000005
201807300000000006
201807300000000007
201807300000000008
2)... (10 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
mb_strrpos
MB_STRRPOS(3) 1 MB_STRRPOS(3)mb_strrpos - Find position of last occurrence of a string in a stringSYNOPSIS
int mb_strrpos (string $haystack, string $needle, [int $offset], [string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()])
DESCRIPTION
Performs a multibyte safe strrpos(3) operation based on the number of characters. $needle position is counted from the beginning of
$haystack. First character's position is 0. Second character position is 1.
PARAMETERS
o $haystack
- The string being checked, for the last occurrence of $needle
o $needle
- The string to find in $haystack.
o $offset
- May be specified to begin searching an arbitrary number of characters into the string. Negative values will stop searching at an
arbitrary point prior to the end of the string.
o $encoding
-The $encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the numeric position of the last occurrence of $needle in the $haystack string. If $needle is not found, it returns FALSE.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------+
| 5.2.0 | |
| | |
| | Added the optional parameter $offset. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------+
NOTES
Note
The $encoding parameter was moved from the third position to the fourth in PHP 5.2.0. For backward compatibility, $encoding can be
specified as the third parameter, but doing so is deprecated and will be removed in the future.
SEE ALSO mb_strpos(3), mb_internal_encoding(3), strrpos(3).
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