Re: replace/change certain positions in line of text

Couldn't you also you use visual block mode and then run a regex command on it?

~Mike

On May 18, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:

> On 2013-05-18, meino cramer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a way to replace (for example) position 110-117 in each line
>> of a text to (for example) to "." ?
>>
>> I only found regular expressions handling the length of matches but
>> not their position in a line.
>>
>> Since what I want to acchieve lastly is lot of work I dont want
>> to add n '.' or do wild calculations from positions to lengths
>> of strings.
>>
>> Directly using the positions themselves would be nice.
>>
>> Is that possible with vim? How?
>
> See
>
> :help /\%c
>
> For example:
>
> :%s/\%110c.*\%118c/./
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
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