On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, fergal daly wrote: > Here's a problem that occurred on a list I'm on. Someone has a csv file > with 8 columns and they want to merge colums 4, 5, 6 and 7. So > > 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 => 1,2,3,4567,8,9 Assuming you meant 9 columns instead of 8: perl -054pe'abs$.%8-5<2&&chop' -- Tim Gim Yee tgy@chocobo.org ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe