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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Trim and pad a field in the middle of unix file Post 302478590 by BSF on Wednesday 8th of December 2010 10:09:56 AM
Old 12-08-2010
Thanks! I managed to do it the following way using awk

awk '{str1=substr($0,1,5);str2=substr($0,6,10);str3=substr($0,16,length $0);
gsub(/ /,"",str2);gsub(/-/,"",str2);printf str1;printf("%-10s",str2);printf str3 "\n"}
 

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STRCSPN(3)								 1								STRCSPN(3)

strcspn - Find length of initial segment not matching mask

SYNOPSIS
int strcspn (string $str1, string $str2, [int $start], [int $length]) DESCRIPTION
Returns the length of the initial segment of $str1 which does not contain any of the characters in $str2. PARAMETERS
o $str1 - The first string. o $str2 - The second string. o $start - The start position of the string to examine. o $length - The length of the string to examine. RETURN VALUES
Returns the length of the segment as an integer. EXAMPLES
Example #1 strcspn(3) example <?php $a = strcspn('abcd', 'apple'); $b = strcspn('abcd', 'banana'); $c = strcspn('hello', 'l'); $d = strcspn('hello', 'world'); var_dump($a); var_dump($b); var_dump($c); var_dump($d); ?> The above example will output: int(0) int(0) int(2) int(2) NOTES
Note This function is binary-safe. SEE ALSO
strspn(3). PHP Documentation Group STRCSPN(3)
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