text_combined: chris charley charleypulsenetcom original message remy guo newsgroups perlbeginners perl beginners sent tuesday august 05 2008 1014 pm subject question text operation using regex hi txt log file want delete 9th character line using regexthanks remy ooops sent poster mistake could command line perl pe 8 length substr _8 1 logfiletxt altered_filetxt chris unsubscribe email beginnersunsubscribeperlorg additional commands email beginnershelpperlorg httplearnperlorg tue 05 aug 2008 224518 0400 question text operation using regex