Re^2: Best way to put : between fields in a string

I thought about doing it using fixed-length fields, but he seems to want to put a colon after each number followed by a letter (i.e. \d:[a-zA-Z]).

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Re^3: Best way to put : between fields in a string by calin (Deacon) on Apr 21, 2005 at 13:03 UTC
Yeah, what did not surprise me was the fact that people jumped on to find "patterns" in the string etc. The question simply asked "Take string X and transform it into string Y". I have learned, as a life lesson, that second-guessing people is not always profitable, in fact it's not most of the times. Just give 'em what they want, with minimum complications. My post was intended for contrast. On a lighter side, I guess one could come up with an even more braindead solution (I'd investigate `substr`, `index`, `for`-a-la-C etc.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Best way to put : between fields in a string
by calin (Deacon) on Apr 21, 2005 at 13:03 UTC

Yeah, what did not surprise me was the fact that people jumped on to find "patterns" in the string etc. The question simply asked "Take string X and transform it into string Y". I have learned, as a life lesson, that second-guessing people is not always profitable, in fact it's not most of the times. Just give 'em what they want, with minimum complications. My post was intended for contrast.

On a lighter side, I guess one could come up with an even more braindead solution (I'd investigate substr, index, for-a-la-C etc.)

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