Schwedler Kofoed wrote: > > Hi There, Hello,
> I would like to change a array @xx looking like this: > > R23 4587 4985934 3245324 66666 > > to: > > R23 458XXXX7 4985934 3245324 6666XXXX6 > > with other words I would like to insert (not replace) XXXX at character > position 8 and 31. I have have tried to use splice and substr but since the > changes have to occur in the middle of the single scalar ($xx[1] and $xx[5]) > it dos not work (??) What are you using to determine which array elements to expand? Always indexes 1 and 5? If the number is less than seven digits? A specific digit sequence like '458' or '6666'? You can use substr to insert a character string anywhere in a scalar: $ perl -le'$scalar = 4587; substr( $scalar, -1, 0, "XXXX" ); print $scalar' 458XXXX7 perldoc -f substr John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
