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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find character and Replace character for given position Post 302739107 by Sara183 on Tuesday 4th of December 2012 11:56:54 AM
Old 12-04-2012
Hi ,

To RudiC- My apologize, sample file i provided have spaces between them, that was eliminated by browser. I cannot able to understand your solution c'oz am new to SED.

To bipinajith - i tried your solution, but there was no change in output.

---------- Post updated at 04:05 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:40 PM ----------

Hi in2nix4life,

Your solution worked great!! Thanks.

One more thing i want if this '-' character appears in different position like,

Code:
B0907120013-001
B09071200130-01
B090712001-3001

How the script will be?

---------- Post updated 12-04-12 at 11:56 AM ---------- Previous update was 12-03-12 at 04:05 PM ----------

I have tried this one
Code:
AWK=''' BEGIN { Pad = "O00000000000000"; } length <= 299 || ! index (substr ($0, 284, 15), "-") { print; next; } { print substr ($0, 1, 284) Pad substr ($0, 299); } '''
awk "${AWK}" tempfile

but nothing got changed my output. Am i doing anything wrong in this command. Please advice.
Last edited by Scott; 12-04-2012 at 01:05 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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