Re: [bug-gawk] Is there a way to change a string inplace by index?

[david kerns]

awk 'BEGIN { s = "0123456789"; i = 7-1; s = substr(s,0,i) "x" substr(s,i+2); print s }'

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi, I don't find a way to replace some characters of a string inplace
by index. For example, I want to replace the i-th character of s by x.
Is there a way to do so in awk?

s[i] = x

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Regards,
Peng