"Schuh, Richard" wrote: > PIPE ... | change /string/ // | ...
Well, okay, that's a more exact opposite of INSERT than I was thinking of. I just want to excise a particular range of columns, regardless of its contents. But, hmmm, in simple cases, XLATE|CHANGE does the trick: ... | xlate w2-4 00-ff 00 | change w2 x00 '' | ... Still more expensive than a single SPECS, but I guess there's a place for both solutions, since SPECS doesn't give us a way to preserve the number of blanks on either side of the specified range. ¬R
