[H-GEN] char inset
Bruce Campbell
bc at humbug.org.au
Tue May 2 20:37:54 EDT 2000
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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Grant, Luke wrote:
lgrant> so what i need is a howto on the following in either bash or perl.
lgrant>
lgrant> "B43" which is the contents of a string variable must become "B043" and i
bash:
l1="`echo $input | cut -c -1`"
l2="`echo $input | cut -c 2-`"
output="${l1}0${l2}"
perl:
$output = $input;
$output =~ /^([A-Za-z])(\d\d)$/${1}0${2}/g;
Both are doing the same thing. Use perl, as the regex is easier.
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