Re: Text Manipulation

[mike808 <mike808@users.sourceforge.net>]

Randy wrote:
> 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; }

Right track, Randy. KISS to those other wannabe-JAPHs.
   perl -pi -e 's/(.{7})/$1 /g' FILENAME

This breaks up each line into 7-character "words". In place. Does not work on 
Microsoft OSes due to lame filesystem implementation.
It does not treat the file as one continuous string (although that could be 
done).

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