How to give space between columns?

Question

I have a text file as shown below.I would like to give a space between the character and number in the fifth column. How can I do this with awk?

cxe  911  bv  he         


        

Answer 1

I haven't tested it, But I guess this should work.

awk '{$5=substr($5,0,1)" "substr($5,1);print}' your_file