[ILUG] Moving chars about within lines

[Ray Kelly]

Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
> How about:
> 
> sed -e 's/^\(.\{X\}\)\(.\{Y\}\).*/\1,\2/' -e '/.\{X\},.\{Y\}/!d'
> 
> where X = length of field X
> and     Y = length of field Y
> 
> the second expression just deletes any malformed lines
> in case there is invalid input to start with.

perfecto ... 

_*exactly*_ what I was looking for, it works a treat.

ta Padraig

	Ray ...