Re: replace/change certain positions in line of text

2013-05-20 Thread meino . cramer
Gary Johnson garyj...@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

replace/change certain positions in line of text

2013-05-18 Thread meino . cramer
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

Re: replace/change certain positions in line of text

2013-05-18 Thread Gary Johnson
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

Re: replace/change certain positions in line of text

2013-05-18 Thread Mike Hume
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 garyj...@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