On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:35:29PM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:22:48PM +0000, Phil Pereira wrote: > > Is there an easy way to split "123456" into "12-34-56"? > > $ perl -lne 'print "$1-$2-$3" if /(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)/' > 123456 > 12-34-56 > $ > > This should start a good TIMTOWTDI thread :)
If you insist: echo 123456 | perl -lne 'print join "-", /../g' -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
