Paul Johnson said: > 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'
Or just for fun: echo 123456 | perl -lne 'print join "-", unpack "a2a2a2", $_' Jody
