Howdy: I must be going about this the wrong way. I'm trying to modify a script and concatenates text files into one large file. That works.
There is a part where inside the text file are six columns. The last column is what I need to edit. It's alpha_numerical. I want to edit the sixth column and put a zero (0) in front of whatever is in that column. So, I want to go from: [sample] 2001q2 06 P92786 IEMMM01 1 6 2001q2 06 P92786 IEMMM01 1 8 2001q2 06 P56576 IEMFF01 1 23 to this: 2001q2 06 P92786 IEMMM01 1 06 2001q2 06 P92786 IEMMM01 1 08 2001q2 06 P56576 IEMFF01 1 023 [/sample] Between the fields are spaces AND tabs. I thought I'd have to figure out how to split the file, make an array out of each column and then rewrite / edit into the same file. I think it should be easy if I do something like: $vals[5] =~ s/(\w+)/(0$1)/g; but it doesn't seem to be working. Sorry - I don't have a script per se, I keep editing whatever I have from examples ... so it looks pretty much blank each time. Suggestions? -X
