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

[Luuk]

On 04-09-16 05:03, david kerns wrote:
> true, but put this isn't python ;)
>
> I think the closest you'll come to in-place substitution is sub() and 
> gsub(), but those are regex (content) replacements not position based. 
> You could do this:
>
> awk 'BEGIN { s = "0123456789"; i = 7-1; ss = substr(s,0,i); sub(ss 
> ".", ss "x", s) ; print s }'

another variation on this:
awk 'BEGIN { t="........."; s = "0123456789"; i = 7-1; s = gensub("(" 
substr(t,1,i) ").","\\1x",1,s); print s }'