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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Add a space between certain characters Using Perl Scripting Post 302634919 by itkamaraj on Friday 4th of May 2012 03:03:54 AM
Old 05-04-2012
Code:
 
$ perl a.pl 
A,B,C, D,E,F, G,H
 
$ cat a.pl
#!/bin/perl -w
$var="A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H";
@splitArray=split(/,/,$var);
for($i=0;$i<=scalar(@splitArray);$i=$i+3)
{
        if ($i==0) {next;}
        $splitArray[$i]=" " . $splitArray[$i];
}
print join (",",@splitArray);

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