Greetings

During the coding process I have encountered a situation where I have to search and replace a particular column
For example I have the following data: 
         AT0000937503|20060530|||142.708534||GROUP AG|30618720||||OPEN
+|ISIN|4943402|VSE|STOCK|39600000|0.77320

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All the output lines generated will be of the same format as above. Before writing to the file
I want to search and replace the column 16 (i,e STOCK) with "BOXXE".

Till now I've been doing as below 
         $idx =~ s/STOCK/BOXXE/g;

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Sometimes it may be possible that the same line have the word "STOCK" twice. My current code fails
if the same word appears twice. Please suggest how to replace the word *only* in column 16.

Thanks

In reply to Search and replace the word in Column 16 by chanakya

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