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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

12-04-2012

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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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mb_strpos

MB_STRPOS(3)								 1							      MB_STRPOS(3)

mb_strpos - Find position of first occurrence of string in a string

SYNOPSIS

       int mb_strpos (string  $haystack, string  $needle, [int	$offset], [string  $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()])

DESCRIPTION

	Finds position of the first occurrence of a string in a string.

	Performs  a  multi-byte  safe strpos(3) operation based on number of characters. The first character's position is 0, the second character
       position is 1, and so on.

PARAMETERS

	      o $haystack
		- The string being checked.

	      o $needle
		- The string to find in $haystack. In contrast with strpos(3), numeric values are not applied as the ordinal value of a character.

	      o $offset
		- The search offset. If it is not specified, 0 is used.

	      o $encoding
		-The $encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of $needle in the $haystack string. If $needle is not found, it returns FALSE.

SEE ALSO

       mb_internal_encoding(3), strpos(3).

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