An other way is

|space 1 05
|insert x05

This works also when the number of words is variable.

   j.

2008/12/16 Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]>:
> "Wilson, Roger" wrote:
>>  CICS      19.5
>>  DOSVSE     .25
>>  COMP       .19
>> I need a tab before CICS, DOSVSE or COMP and the numbers.
>
>  ... | specs  x05 1  word 1 next  x05 next  word 2 next | ...
>
> If you know your input records will always be well formed, or if you
> don't care about the tab character when the number is missing, you can
> take advantage of the fact that x05 is the default field separator and
> use the NEXTFIELD keyword to add it implicitly:
>
>  ... | specs  x05 1  word 1 next  word 2 nextfield | ...
>
> Note that we can't use NEXTFIELD to add the leading tab character,
> because the separator is only written if the output is already non-null.
>
> ¬R
>

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