11-02-2011
Replace 8th and 9th characters in file permanently
Good evening,
I have a file and wish to replace the 8th and 9th characters on the first line only no matter what they are with 44 and the file permanantly changed.
e.g. file example.txt before change:
123456789123456
hi how are you
blah
blah
file example.txt after change:
123456744123456
hi how are you
blah
blah
All answers much appreciated.
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
strtok
STRTOK(3) BSD Library Functions Manual STRTOK(3)
NAME
strtok, strtok_r -- string tokens
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>
char *
strtok(char *str, const char *sep);
char *
strtok_r(char *str, const char *sep, char **last);
DESCRIPTION
This interface is obsoleted by strsep(3).
The strtok() function is used to isolate sequential tokens in a null-terminated string, str. These tokens are separated in the string by at
least one of the characters in sep. The first time that strtok() is called, str should be specified; subsequent calls, wishing to obtain
further tokens from the same string, should pass a null pointer instead. The separator string, sep, must be supplied each time, and may
change between calls.
The implementation will behave as if no library function calls strtok().
The strtok_r() function is a reentrant version of strtok(). The context pointer last must be provided on each call. The strtok_r() function
may also be used to nest two parsing loops within one another, as long as separate context pointers are used.
The strtok() and strtok_r() functions return a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string, after replacing the token
itself with a NUL character. When no more tokens remain, a null pointer is returned.
EXAMPLES
The following uses strtok_r() to parse two strings using separate contexts:
char test[80], blah[80];
char *sep = "\/:;=-";
char *word, *phrase, *brkt, *brkb;
strcpy(test, "This;is.a:test:of=the/string\tokenizer-function.");
for (word = strtok_r(test, sep, &brkt);
word;
word = strtok_r(NULL, sep, &brkt))
{
strcpy(blah, "blah:blat:blab:blag");
for (phrase = strtok_r(blah, sep, &brkb);
phrase;
phrase = strtok_r(NULL, sep, &brkb))
{
printf("So far we're at %s:%s
", word, phrase);
}
}
SEE ALSO
memchr(3), strchr(3), strcspn(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), wcstok(3)
STANDARDS
The strtok() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C90'').
AUTHORS
Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Softweyr LLC
Based on the FreeBSD 3.0 implementation.
BUGS
The System V strtok(), if handed a string containing only delimiter characters, will not alter the next starting point, so that a call to
strtok() with a different (or empty) delimiter string may return a non-NULL value. Since this implementation always alters the next starting
point, such a sequence of calls would always return NULL.
BSD
November 27, 1998 BSD