I'm still having problems with this subject matter.  If I have a line
that is 600 characters long and I need to replace whatever is in
characters (fields) 360 - 364 with the five digit code ABCDE, how do I
do this?

I've tried utilizing sed for this, but I get endpoint too large errors
because I can't run a sed substitute command past 255 characters.
Below is what I've tried to do, but I keep receiving endpoint too
large errors when I put 360 in the command:

sed "/^A00.*${INVNUM}.*${PRODNUM}/s/\([a-zA-Z0-9 ]\{1,360\}\)[a-z
A-Z0-9 ]\{5\}/\1${LINEITNUM}/" $LFILE > $TMPFILE

Please help me put this 2 year old problem of mine officially to rest.

Thank you.

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pokechoppe@aol.com (John) writes:

> I'm still having problems with this subject matter.  If I have a line
> that is 600 characters long and I need to replace whatever is in
> characters (fields) 360 - 364 with the five digit code ABCDE, how do I
> do this?
>
> I've tried utilizing sed for this, but I get endpoint too large errors
> because I can't run a sed substitute command past 255 characters.
> Below is what I've tried to do, but I keep receiving endpoint too
> large errors when I put 360 in the command:
>
> sed "/^A00.*${INVNUM}.*${PRODNUM}/s/\([a-zA-Z0-9 ]\{1,360\}\)[a-z
> A-Z0-9 ]\{5\}/\1${LINEITNUM}/" $LFILE > $TMPFILE
>
> Please help me put this 2 year old problem of mine officially to rest.

Use PERL instead.  It doesn't have any limits on string lengths.

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In comp.unix.admin John <pokechoppe@aol.com> wrote:
> I'm still having problems with this subject matter.  If I have a line
> that is 600 characters long and I need to replace whatever is in
> characters (fields) 360 - 364 with the five digit code ABCDE, how do I
> do this?

You can use 'head' to extract a number of bytes (chars) from the
beginning of the file and tail to extract a number of bytes from
the end, wc can give you the lenght of the file in bytes.

Davide

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:17:39 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> pokechoppe@aol.com (John) writes: 
[snip]
> Use PERL instead.  It doesn't have any limits on string lengths.

I can recommend Ruby (IMHO Ruby is nicer than Perl)

server> ruby a.rb
OK
server> cat a.rb
=begin   # generate a input data
s = ("."*360) + "xxxxx" + ("_"*235)
raise "should not happen" if s.length != 600
data = s+"\n" + "hello world\n" + s+"\n" + ("t"*601)+"\n" + s
File.open("input", "w+") {|f| f.write(data) }
=end

data = ""
File.open("input", "r") {|f| data = f.read }
re = /^(.{360}).{5}(.{235})$/
data.gsub!(re, '\1ABCDE\2')
File.open("output", "w+") {|f| f.write(data) }
puts "OK"
server>

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Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:17:39 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: 
> [snip] 
>
> I can recommend Ruby (IMHO Ruby is nicer than Perl)

I don't know Ruby, but I know that virtually every Unix system has
Perl, whereas only a few have Ruby installed.

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:19:25 +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> writes:
> 
>
> I don't know Ruby, but I know that virtually every Unix system has
> Perl, whereas only a few have Ruby installed.

You should give it (Ruby) a try.. its pure object oriented and has
a really nice syntax.

For instance

10.times { puts "hello world" }

is pretty obvious...And also

puts "dlrow olloh".reverse

outputs "hello world"
Everything is an object.. you can invoke methods on numbers, strings..etc.

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Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> writes:
 
>
> You should give it (Ruby) a try.. its pure object oriented and has
> a really nice syntax.
>
> For instance
>
>   10.times { puts "hello world" }

print "hello world" x 10;

> is pretty obvious...And also
>
>   puts "dlrow olloh".reverse

print scalar reverse "dlrow olloh";

> outputs "hello world"
> Everything is an object.. you can invoke methods on numbers, strings..etc.

That's not the right arguments to convince me.  I'm not a fan of
overly object oriented languages.

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In <comp.unix.admin> John <pokechoppe@aol.com> wrote:
> I'm still having problems with this subject matter.  If I have a line
> that is 600 characters long and I need to replace whatever is in
> characters (fields) 360 - 364 with the five digit code ABCDE, how do I
> do this?
>
> I've tried utilizing sed for this, but I get endpoint too large errors
> because I can't run a sed substitute command past 255 characters.
> Below is what I've tried to do, but I keep receiving endpoint too
> large errors when I put 360 in the command:
>
> sed "/^A00.*${INVNUM}.*${PRODNUM}/s/\([a-zA-Z0-9 ]\{1,360\}\)[a-z
> A-Z0-9 ]\{5\}/\1${LINEITNUM}/" $LFILE > $TMPFILE
>
> Please help me put this 2 year old problem of mine officially to rest.

1.  Use GNU sed.

2.  Play with
cut -c1-359
cut -c360-364
cut -c365-

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