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RE: Replacing characters

> At 11:24 AM 3/12/2004 -0500, Mark Allen wrote:

> >for privacy reasons I need to change all the phone #'s to "fictitous"
> >numbers i.e. change 706-678-9565 to 945-224-4848 or such.  The 
> >phone numbersstart in a various # of places in the file (i.e. some
> >might start in position 33 others 55, 87 etc.) I've been racking
> >my brain for a quick and dirty way to this without having to
> > manually edit the file.

> From: Vern Hamberg

> Another idea is grep, in QShell.


Try sed rather than grep.

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