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# 1  
Old 12-30-2008
copy substr in existing string in Perl
Any clue to write something to a particular location in Perl?

Suppose

$line = ‘abc cde 1234”

How to write ( example string "test") on location 4 without parsing the whole line.

Output should be $line = ‘abctest 1234”

this is not search and replace. just to add substring into some existing string.

thanks
# 2  
Old 12-31-2008
Hi.

Welcome to the forum.

Look through perldoc -q string ... cheers, drl
# 3  
Old 12-31-2008
Hopefully I'm not doing your school work for you:

Code:
$line = 'abc cde 1234';
substr $line,3,4,'test';
print $line;

Look up the substr() function for details
# 4  
Old 12-31-2008
Thanks. I did it aleady
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