Select subset of characters in many lines (column selection) in Eclipse/Android Studio

Question

How to select subset of characters in many lines (column selection) in Eclipse/Android Studio? Ideally without plugins. Shift+Alt+A seems not to be working for me either.

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Answer 1

As per this thread: How do I enable the column selection mode in Eclipse?

or this one: Block selection in eclipse

Use: Alt+Shift+A

To switch between Column selection ans stream selection.

Block selection is available since Eclipse 3.5. You can toggle between standard and block selection by Alt+Shift+A (or press Ctrl+3, type "toggle block" and select Toggle Block Selection command).