replacing nth occurance on line

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From: ian
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1989 21:52

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Does anyone know of a utility or text editor for the Mac
which will replace the nth occurance of a string on a line?

In other words, I have a number of data fields in  a text document
separated by tabs and i want to replace the first tab by a '-'
the second by '...' etc.

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Ian Dowell                                                   ian@inmet.inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.                                               uunet!inmet!ian

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