Say I have a file with 30 columns and I want to add 1 to the number in column 15, but otherwise print the line as is. Is there a better way to do this then something like

perl -lane' print "$F[0]\t$F[2]\t$F[3]....\t" .$F[15]+1 . "\t$F[16] .....\t$F[30]"' file.txt

The dots representing $Fx\t ( or everything in-between) Any ideas? the shorter the better. Also i was thinking maybe a tricky substation might work but this could get difficult with more complex operations. Still.... open to any suggestions Thanks for your time.

In reply to Editing just one column in a file by ZWcarp

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