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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