Need help for import of text file

Hi,

I need to import textfiles that have 5 columns but there is just blanks
as delimitors.
I could use COPY to read them but there is a time column that shows
times as " h:mm.ss,ms" in the morning and "hh:mm.ss,ms" in the afternoon.

Problem here is in the morning the first digit of the hour is shown as a
blank so there are 2 blanks before the time so COPY misstakes this as an
empty column and gets confused.

Can someone point me in the direction of an COPY option I'm not aware
of, or alternativly to some console tool that I can put in the batch
before the import step and replace the 2 blanks with 1 blank.

I use an OpenSuse server so some linux tool would do.


regards
Andreas