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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find character and Replace character for given position Post 302739001 by Sara183 on Monday 3rd of December 2012 12:02:33 PM
Old 12-03-2012
Hi,

I want to replace the whole position 284-298 to character 'O' if this '-' character occurs in that position. Above mentioned thread will replace only 289 position.

This is how my file will be


Code:
15628 27243 LM INS CORP                                                             QQ1234567977011 SPIDLE CONTRACTING LLC                                          21MI 10 13 2006 03 04 2010 05       Premium Recovered - First Attorney 00000050000-00000012000 00000000000 00000000000 B00000000399225
15628 27243 LM INS CORP                                                             QQ1234567977011 SOUTH CAROLINA HURRICANES                                       20SC 01 09 2011 09 15 2012 20                         Audit Adjustment 00000490000 00000000000 00000000000 00000000000 B090712-0013001


And i need to find if '-' present in that string B090712-0013001, then replace the whole string with "O".

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Did anyone know the how to achieve this?

Last edited by Scott; 12-04-2012 at 01:04 PM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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XmTextReplace(library call)											       XmTextReplace(library call)

NAME
XmTextReplace -- A Text function that replaces part of a text string SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h> void XmTextReplace( Widget widget, XmTextPosition from_pos, XmTextPosition to_pos, char * value); DESCRIPTION
XmTextReplace replaces part of the text string in the Text widget. The character positions begin at 0 (zero) and are numbered sequentially from the beginning of the text. An example text replacement would be to replace the second and third characters in the text string. To accomplish this, the parameter from_pos must be 1 and to_pos must be 3. To insert a string after the fourth character, both parameters, from_pos and to_pos, must be 4. This routine calls the widget's XmNvalueChangedCallback and verification callbacks, either XmNmodifyVerifyCallback or XmNmodifyVerifyCall- backWcs, or both. If both verification callback lists are registered, the procedures of the XmNmodifyVerifyCallback list are executed first and the resulting data is passed to the XmNmodifyVerifyCallbackWcs callbacks. The XmNmotionVerifyCallback is generated if to_pos is less than or equal to the cursor position and the length of value is not the same as the length of the text being replaced, or if the cursor position is between from_pos and to_pos, and the distance from the cursor position to from_pos is greater than the length of value. widget Specifies the Text widget ID from_pos Specifies the start position of the text to be replaced to_pos Specifies the end position of the text to be replaced value Specifies the character string value to be added to the text widget For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3). RELATED
XmText(3) and XmTextReplaceWcs(3). XmTextReplace(library call)
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