Remove 3rd character from the end of a random-length string

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

I hope someone can share there scripting fu on my problem,

I would like to delete the 3rd character from a random length of string starting from the end

Example

Output

Hope you can help me..

Thanks in advance..

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perl -pe 's/.(.{3})$/\1/' file
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Same script in sed:

sed 's/.\(...\)$/\1' file
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Thanks much it helps..