On 3 Mrz., 13:32, Joel Reicher <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> bernhard.strohme...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> > Is it possible in AWK to assign a string by index into another string?
> > I am looking for something like the subst() function in SQL.
>
> > For example, if I would like to insert the string "abc" into the
> > string "12345789", starting at position 3 overwriting the other
> > elements the required result would be "12abc6789"
>
> s = sprintf("%s%s%s", substr(s, 1, pos-1), insert, substr(s,
pos+length(insert)))
>
> And in your example, s="123456789", pos=3, and insert="abc".
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Joel
Very good answers, thank you all very much!
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