01-28-2009
thanks for reply.....
I am new to unix....
I require to append 100 spaces(fillers) to header(first line) and 100 space to trailer(last line).
the data in the middle not to be changed.
i do not want variable length record file turned into a fixed width record file. i just need to append 100 fillers in the first line and 100 fillers in last line
sample file:
HODA(need to add 100 fillers(spaces) here)
D0000000000000000000000000000000000
D0000000000000000000000000000000000
T000012(need to add 100 fillers(spaces) here)
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NAME
PerlIO::via::symlink - PerlIO layers for create symlinks
SYNOPSIS
open $fh, '>:via(symlink)', $fname;
print $fh "link foobar";
close $fh;
DESCRIPTION
The PerlIO layer "symlink" allows you to create a symbolic link by writing to the file handle.
You need to write C"link $name" to the file handle. If the format does not match, "close" will fail with EINVAL.
TEST COVERAGE
----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
File stmt branch cond sub time total
----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0
Total 100.0 100.0 n/a 100.0 100.0 100.0
----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
AUTHORS
Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004-2005 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
perl v5.18.2 2005-03-01 symlink(3)