i have a string of 80 chars i want to replace 4th char with "a"?

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i have a string of 80 chars i want to replace 4th char with "a"?..

Answer / krishna

Move the sting in to a variable Eg to WS-String
then

Move 'a' to ws-string(4:1)

hope this will work

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i have a string of 80 chars i want to replace 4th char with "a"?..

Answer / mchava

first move string 4th position to one variable

ex: string(4:1)=ws-string

then use inspect and replace words
ex: INSPECT STRING REPLACING WS-STRING BY 'a'
BEFORE SPACE/'.'/(end of the sting).

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i have a string of 80 chars i want to replace 4th char with "a"?..

Answer / deepak dada, jaipur

not sure but

inspect string replacing string(4:1) by 'a'

might work

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