I don't know if you're aware, but many of these text-editing programs allow vertical selection by holding the Alt key while you select. This allows you to select, copy, and paste colums of characters. I know this works in Microsoft Visual Studio, SciTE, and Notepad++.
Holding alt to select a block of text won't do the trick as I need it to work in batch mode. Not an issue anymore since I solved it with that other program.
Mop, share your trickery I could not figure out how to do it. pedroluchini, I'm looking to search and replace a block of text in 100+ files, already know about the alt select trick which is quite handy, but I'm looking for a batch solution in notepad++