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From: chuck@hplisa.HP.COM (-Chuck Bade)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Help.  Access char in a line
Message-ID: <1240001@hplisa.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 90 15:59:29 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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I am new to perl, so this may be obvious to many of you, but I need to 
manipulate some characters of some formatted output into another form.

The fields I am interested in are always in the same position in the line
with no tabs, only spaces padding between fields.  

I know how to read a line in from a file, but then how do I access 
certain characters in that line?

Chuck Bade
chuck@hpfire.lvld.hp.com