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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove the first character from the fourth column only if the column has four characters Post 302843361 by Jotne on Tuesday 13th of August 2013 02:42:51 AM
Old 08-13-2013
If the format is fixed the solution from Chubler should work.
To edit the file do
Code:
awk '{ print substr($0,1,16) " " substr($0,18) }' orgfile > newfile ; mv newfile orgfile

This will replace the file, (same as sed -i), not sure if you can do it in an other way.
 

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NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr - Use 4-argument "substr" instead of writing "substr($foo, 2, 6) = $bar".

AFFILIATION

       This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

       Conway discourages the use of "substr()" as an lvalue, instead recommending that the 4-argument version of "substr()" be used instead.

	   substr($something, 1, 2) = $newvalue;     # not ok
	   substr($something, 1, 2, $newvalue);      # ok

       The four-argument form of "substr()" was introduced in Perl 5.005.  This policy does not report violations on code which explicitly
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CONFIGURATION

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SEE ALSO

       "substr" in perlfunc (or "perldoc -f substr").

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