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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find character and Replace character for given position Post 302739069 by in2nix4life on Monday 3rd of December 2012 12:27:21 PM
Old 12-03-2012
If this file is in this fixed format, this would work:

Code:
cat file

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

perl -pe 's|\w{7}-\w{7}|('0' x 14).$1|ge' file

15628 27243 LM INS CORP QQ1234567977011 SPIDLE CONTRACTING LLC 21MI 10 13 2006 03 04 2010 05 Premium Recovered - First Attorney 0000000000000000002000 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 00000000000000

---------- Post updated at 12:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:19 PM ----------

Revised:

Code:
perl -pe 's|\w{7}-\w{7}$|('0' x 14).$1|ge' file

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 00000000000000

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XmTextFieldPosToXY(library call)										  XmTextFieldPosToXY(library call)

NAME
XmTextFieldPosToXY -- A TextField function that accesses the x and y position of a character position SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/TextF.h> Boolean XmTextFieldPosToXY( Widget widget, XmTextPosition position, Position *x, Position *y); DESCRIPTION
XmTextFieldPosToXY accesses the x and y position, relative to the upper left corner of the TextField widget, of a given character position in the text buffer. widget Specifies the TextField widget ID position Specifies the character position in the text for which the x and y position is accessed. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the buffer. The first character position is 0. x Specifies the pointer in which the x position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the left side of the wid- get to the left border of the character. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True. y Specifies the pointer in which the y position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the top of the widget to the character's baseline. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True. For a complete definition of TextField and its associated resources, see XmTextField(3). RETURN
This function returns True if the character position is displayed in the TextField widget; otherwise, it returns False, and no x or y value is returned. RELATED
XmTextField(3). XmTextFieldPosToXY(library call)
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