Re: replace/change certain positions in line of text

Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> [13-05-18 20:36]:
> 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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Hi Gary,

thank you for your help! :)

Best regards,
mcc



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