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Bob and Ben,

Your solution works great. Thanks!!!!!

Mike

Bob,
You are correct, I left one character out in the output example. I hope you can suggest a RE that I can use, in spite of my typo.

Thanks,
Mike

I want to replace characters between fixed positions on each line of text. For example, in the following lines, I want to replace charcacters 5th trough 8th with YYYY.

Given this:
23 aad sssxxxx
faf ffee sscc ee67y
sss xees kkkpa

I neeed this:
23 aYYYYssxxxx
faf fYYYYsscc ee67y
sss YYYY kkkpa

I ...