Inserting text in the middle of a file on every line

[lbzh]

I have a Unix scripting question,I have a file such as below:
1234ABCDE KLDS
2334KLVDE ABdd
9832BDKLE TMDA


I would like to insert the string "HERE" in position 5 in every line in the file and the rest of the characters in each line move over
resulting in the following:
1234HEREABCDE KLDS
2334HEREKLVDE ABdd
9832HEREBDKLE TMDA
......
Note: Each line could move 2 or more successive blanks somewhere on the line which I would like to maintain.
any ideas on what method to approach this.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
sed 's!^\(....\)!\1HERE!' /path/to/input >output

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[stefanwagner]

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