Re: Text Manipulation (and solution)

Thank you to all. Mik808's simplified approach is *EXACTLY* what I was looking for.

You know, the "problem so trivial, the solution is left to the student"

type of answer.

Thank you Mike808! You don't know how thrilled I was to see that syntax!

Just for humour, here is the actual SED command I used:

sed -e 's/\(.\{24\}\)\(.\{5\}\)\(.\{7\}\)\(.\{7\}\)\(.\{7\}\)\(.\{7\}\)\(.\{3\}\)\(.\{4\}\)\(.\{1\}\)/\1@\2@\3@\4@\5@\6@\7@\8@\9/' FILENAME

The ability to break a string into substrings, or subelements, or whatever they are called,

by number of characters, and then manipulate the subelements is a wonderful thing.

Today we NAWKed, and it was beautiful!

Thanks again,

Tyler