Re: Text Manipulation

[Spearing Tyler Contractor USTC <Tyler.Spearing@hq.transcom.mil>]

Thanks, Randy, but the fields I need are not all the same size.  How to do that?  Also, I forgot to mention

that some lines have blanks in them in other areas as well.  Will that affect the splitting of $1, or should it be $0?

 

Tyler

 

 

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>There is probbly an easier way to do this... But here is one way.
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>You could do something simple in perl like this:
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>while (<>)
>{
> s/(\w\w\w\w\w\w\w)/$1 /g;
>print;
>}
> 
>This will break the line into groups of 7 characters.  You can modify this slightly to do what you want.
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>Randy  
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