Change the text in 2nd column in file

Legends,

I have following entries in a file.
I want to toggle the entry of 2nd column. TRUE/FALSE
i tried using

perl -p -i -e

but the problem is, if instead of "tab" space after 1st column, there is a character or multi character space then this won't work.

perl -p -i -e "s/$i.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE/$i.xxx.out.remoteOn           FALSE/g" /tmp/file_a

Entries in the below file is like:

abc.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write
def.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write
ghi.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write
jkl.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write

Pls help, if i can use any other editor "sed", "awk" etc.(but i am not too familiar with these)

Regards

Try this...

only problem is with OFS..

$ cat file
abc.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write
def.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write
ghi.xxx.out.remoteOn           FALSE                               write
jkl.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write

$ awk '{if($0 ~ /FALSE/){$2="TRUE"}else if($0 ~ /TRUE/){$2="FALSE"}}1' OFS="\t" file
abc.xxx.out.remoteOn    FALSE   write
def.xxx.out.remoteOn    FALSE   write
ghi.xxx.out.remoteOn    TRUE    write
jkl.xxx.out.remoteOn    FALSE   write

Thanks Pamu, but it has changed the file format. after change, now only one tab space. while there are around 3 tab spaces before 3rd col and 2 tabs before 2nd col.

If you know the spacings then just add spacings also...
Use

awk '{if($0~/FALSE/){print $1"\t\tTRUE\t\t\t"$3}else if($0~/TRUE/){print $1"\t\tFALSE\t\t\t"$3}else{print}}' file

This depends on the No. of <TAB>s you specified and on the fact that $4 will always contain either logical value:

awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS="\t"}
     {$4=$4=="TRUE"?"FALSE":"TRUE"}
     1
    '  file

Thanks Pamu and Rudic, both code worked.

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It worked, but another problem arose is:

It is a huge file and i do not want to toggle entire file entries.
I tried below for loop with your code, but that didnt work out

For i in abc def jhi
do
awk '{if($0~/FALSE/){print $1"\t\tTRUE\t\t\t"$3}else if($0~/TRUE/){print $1"\t\tFALSE\t\t\t"$3}else{print}}' file
done

try

awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS="\t"}
     /abc|def|ghi/ {$4=$4=="TRUE"?"FALSE":"TRUE"}
     1
    '  file