On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:59 +1200, Glenn Cogle wrote:
> Presently I think sed is the tool, as eventually the input will be a
> multi-line text file;
>
> cat $FILE | sed -e 'fiddle about with every line' > $OUTPUT
If you just want a solution then I've attached one for you. If you want
to do it with sed I don't know how to achieve that.
hads
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import sys
try:
infile = sys.argv[1]
except:
sys.stderr.write('No input file\n')
sys.exit(1)
for line in file(infile):
try:
out, body = line[:5], line[5:].strip()
except IndexError:
continue
i = 1
while i < len(body):
out += body[i]
if i % 4 == 0:
out += 'Z'
i += 1
print out
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