Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns?

From	Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns?
Date	2023-02-18 01:59 -0500
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On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:59:31 +0800, Suzy Wong wrote:
>
> In a job some years ago, we had a real nice editor, maybe it was
> Ultraedit. The job files were a throwback to punch cards, so you would 
> do a find/replace restricted to columns 1-8 for example.
> I haven't seen any FOSS editor with this column option.
> Does anybody know one?

Combine "grep" with "cut" may be?

Or may be "grep" can limit itself already. Can you give an example?
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any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Suzy Wong <suzywng@outlook.com> - 2023-02-18 11:59 +0800
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-18 01:59 -0500
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-18 12:15 +0100
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2023-02-18 07:31 -0500
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-02-18 10:54 -0700

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