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I couldn't get either suggestion to work. But this seems to work

awk '{sub(substr($0,26,10)," ",$0);print}' ORIGINAL_FILE.dat > NEWFILE.dat

The " " actually has 10 spaces in between...

That worked but this is how I coded it to make sure every line was changed:

awk '{sub(substr($0,26,10)," ",$0);print}' ORIGINAL_FILE.dat > NEWFILE.dat


Thank you very much!

I am trying to replace the string in position 26 through 35 of the data file with 10 spaces and I want the remaining file to stay as is, the record length is over 900 characters? I am trying to use...