Re: Text Manipulation

["Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <Randy.Flood@scott.af.mil>]

There is probbly an easier way to do this... But here is one way.

 

You could do something simple in perl like this:

 

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.

 

Randy 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Spearing Tyler Contractor USTC
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:45 AM
To: 'SILUG-Discuss'
Subject: Text Manipulation

All,

 

I have racked my brains trying to figure out a way to insert

a column of white space in a plain text file several (tens of)

thousands lines long.  The problem is there is no common text

before or after the column I need to insert the blank space.

 

For example, take the following block of text:

 

12345ABCDE67890FGHJK

Q1W2E3R4T5Y6U7I8O9P0

MNBHGVFRT7352508HY7S

THISLINEHASNOBLANKS2

ANOTHERLINEWITHNONE5

1MORELINEWITHNONEZZZ

 

I would like to insert a column (or two) of white space to

essentially create fields to be manipulated with NAWK, so

that the above text would look like the following:

 

12345AB CDE67890F GHJK

Q1W2E3R 4T5Y6U7I8 O9P0

MNBHGVF RT7352508 HY7S

THISLIN EHASNOBLA NKS2

ANOTHER LINEWITHN ONE5

1MORELI NEWITHNON EZZZ

 

I can use PERL, if necessary, but have a preference for either a shell script or SED command, etc..

 

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Tyler