Re: [bug-gawk] Is there a way to change a string inplace by index?

[arnold]

Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, I don't find a way to replace some characters of a string inplace
> by index. For example, I want to replace the i-th character of s by x.
> Is there a way to do so in awk?

No, there is no way to do that in awk or gawk. You can write
an awk function to build the new string for you or an extension
function for gawk.  As Davd pointed out there are sub and gsub but those
are regexp based.

Arnold