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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Inserting value at a particular position without changing the position of other characters Post 302995050 by RudiC on Friday 31st of March 2017 06:13:25 AM
Old 03-31-2017
So - you want to replace a space with the 1 - not adding one. Arrange for the replacement:
Code:
sed 's/\(.\{13\}\) /\11/' file

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XmTextFieldPosToXY(3X)													    XmTextFieldPosToXY(3X)

NAME
XmTextFieldPosToXY - A TextField function that accesses the x and y position of a character position SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/TextF.h> Boolean XmTextFieldPosToXY (widget, position, x, y) Widget widget; XmTextPosition position; Position *x; Position *y; DESCRIPTION
XmTextFieldPosToXY accesses the x and y position, relative to the upper left corner of the TextField widget, of a given character position in the text buffer. Specifies the TextField 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 func- tion 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 TextField and its associated resources, see XmTextField(3X). RETURN VALUE
This function returns True if the character position is displayed in the TextField widget; otherwise, it returns False, and no x or y value is returned. SEE ALSO
XmTextField(3X) XmTextFieldPosToXY(3X)
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