For mangling text??!! I think your example is way off topic for this > Thank you for your reply. I thought to write C code to accomplish this but next I found very powerful centos tools for this application from the help of you Gentlemen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100513/bd9dc5ab/attachment-0004.html>