Delete character in determinate position with sed/awk

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello. I'm trying to delete one character in determinate position.

Example:

qwEtsdf123Ecv34

<delete character in positi�n 3>

Result:

qwtsdf123Ecv34

Plase, help me.

Thanks

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Try:

cut -c -2,4- file
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a=qwEtsdf123Ecv34

echo $a | sed 's/.//3'
echo $a | cut -c1,2,4-
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Using AWK Command:

awk '{print substr($0,1,2) substr($0,4)}' file
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 $ echo "qwEtsdf123Ecv34" | ruby -e 'p=gets;print p.delete(p[2])' 
qwtsdf123cv34