----- Original Message ----- From: ""Remy Guo"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: perl.beginners
To: "Perl Beginners" <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:14 PM
Subject: question about text operation using regex.


hi all,
i have a txt log file and i want to delete the 9th character of each line.
how can i do it using regex?...thanks!

-Remy


Ooops. Sent it to the poster by mistake.

You could do it from the command line

perl -pe "8 < length && substr $_,8, 1, ''" logfile.txt > altered_file.txt

Chris



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