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nsyed has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Sorry for asking a very basic question. I am trying to do the following with a test.DAT file. The file contains data in various columns that I want to replace to a constant or a random value. However in some cases there might be no data for that particular field length.

Problem:

Start Colum = 161 End Column = 190 , If there is text set to value MYTEXT

Start Column = 221 End Column = 230 , If there is text set to value 01/01/1980

Start Column = 231 End Column = 245 , If there is text set to value random 15 numbers

And leave everything else unchanged. Thanks you so much in advance.