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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete character on specific position Post 302916066 by Don Cragun on Saturday 6th of September 2014 01:53:15 PM
Old 09-06-2014
Although both sed and cut work on Ubuntu, the standards only require sed to work on text files. Files with lines containing more than 2048 bytes are not text files on HP-UX. The cut utility, however, is required to work on files with arbitrary line lengths; so it should work on any system.

As RudiC said for sed, the number of lines being processed doesn't matter; both cut and sed work on one line at a time; they don't need to read the whole file into memory at once to do this job.
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XmTextPosToXY(3X)														 XmTextPosToXY(3X)

NAME

       XmTextPosToXY - A Text function that accesses the x and y position of a character position

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Text.h>

       Boolean XmTextPosToXY (widget, position, x, y)
	       Widget widget;
	       XmTextPosition position;
	       Position *x;
	       Position *y;

DESCRIPTION

       XmTextPosToXY  accesses	the  x	and y position, relative to the upper left corner of the Text widget, of a given character position in the
       text buffer.  Specifies the Text widget ID 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.  Specifies the pointer in which
       the x position, relative to the upper left corner of the widget, is returned.  This value is meaningful only if the function returns  True.
       Specifies the pointer in which the y position, relative to the upper left corner of the widget, is returned.  This value is meaningful only
       if the function returns True.

       For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3X).

RETURN VALUE

       This function returns True if the character position is displayed in the Text widget; otherwise, it returns False, and no x or y  value	is
       returned.

SEE ALSO

       XmText(3X)

																 XmTextPosToXY(3X)
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