Re: Substitution replacement not terminated

in reply to Substitution replacement not terminated

You can supply the -p and -i flags within the script itself. Given that your offsets are fixed, you might find that substr is better suited. It is important to insert at your offsets working from the right.

$ cat > spw1055482.txt
aaaaaGGGGGG55555
fffffJJJJJJ11111
kkkkkUUUUUU99999
$ head -99 spw1055482.*
aaaaaGGGGGG55555
fffffJJJJJJ11111
kkkkkUUUUUU99999
$ cat > spw1055482
#!/usr/bin/perl -npi.bak   
#
use strict;
use warnings;

for my $offset ( 11, 5 )
{
    substr $_, $offset, 0, q{^};
}
$ perl spw1055482 spw1055482.txt
$ head -99 spw1055482*
==> spw1055482 <==
#!/usr/bin/perl -npi.bak
#
use strict;
use warnings;

for my $offset ( 11, 5 )
{
    substr $_, $offset, 0, q{^};
}

==> spw1055482.txt <==
aaaaa^GGGGGG^55555
fffff^JJJJJJ^11111
kkkkk^UUUUUU^99999

==> spw1055482.txt.bak <==
aaaaaGGGGGG55555
fffffJJJJJJ11111
kkkkkUUUUUU99999
$
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I hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^2: Substitution replacement not terminated by shan_emails (Beadle) on Sep 25, 2013 at 07:14 UTC
Greate, Thanks for your help John.	[reply]

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