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Old 08-02-2013
So you need to split the data into 3 (x , xx and xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) overwriting the second potion with "yyy" ?

Code:
perl -ne 'print substr($_ ,0,1),"yyy",subsr($_,3)' file_name

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So you need to split the data into 3 (x , xx and xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) overwriting the second potion with "yy" ?

Code:
perl -ne 'print substr($_ ,0,1),"yy",subsr($_,3)' file_name

 

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Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Cache(3)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Cache(3)

NAME
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Cache - A cache-based mbox folder reader SYNOPSIS
#!/usr/bin/perl use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser; my $filename = 'mail/saved-mail'; my $filehandle = new FileHandle($filename); # Set up cache Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::SETUP_CACHE( { 'file_name' => '/tmp/cache' } ); my $folder_reader = new Mail::Mbox::MessageParser( { 'file_name' => $filename, 'file_handle' => $filehandle, 'enable_cache' => 1, } ); die $folder_reader unless ref $folder_reader; warn "No cached information" if $Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Cache::UPDATING_CACHE; # Any newlines or such before the start of the first email my $prologue = $folder_reader->prologue; print $prologue; # This is the main loop. It's executed once for each email while(!$folder_reader->end_of_file()); { my $email = $folder_reader->read_next_email(); print $email; } DESCRIPTION
This module implements a cached-based mbox folder reader. It can only be used when cache information already exists. Users must not instantiate this class directly--use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser instead. The base MessageParser module will automatically manage the use of cache and non-cache implementations. METHODS AND FUNCTIONS The following methods and functions are specific to the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Cache package. For additional inherited ones, see the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser documentation. $ref = new( { 'file_name' => <mailbox file name>, 'file_handle' => <mailbox file handle>, }); <file_name> - The full filename of the mailbox <file_handle> - An opened file handle for the mailbox The constructor for the class takes two parameters. file_name is the filename of the mailbox. This will be used as the cache key, so it's important that it fully defines the path to the mailbox. The file_handle argument is the opened file handle to the mailbox. Both arguments are required. Returns a reference to a Mail::Mbox::MessageParser object, or a string describing the error. BUGS
No known bugs. Contact david@coppit.org for bug reports and suggestions. AUTHOR
David Coppit <david@coppit.org>. LICENSE
This software is distributed under the terms of the GPL. See the file "LICENSE" for more information. HISTORY
This code was originally part of the grepmail distribution. See http://grepmail.sf.net/ for previous versions of grepmail which included early versions of this code. SEE ALSO
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser perl v5.12.1 2009-08-09 Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Cache(3)
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