How to vertically-block-select words of different length?

Question

With other editors we can select vertical-blocks where each line has the same start column but not the same end-column.

For example:

print("", s.field1);
print("", s.field_long);
print("", s.f);

Is there a way in Vim (with a plugin or not) to select the block from the snippet above:

field1
field_long
f

Can we tell vim to select everything up to a certain character?

A more powerful variant could be to tell Vim select everything between two characters going left and right from the currently selected column.

EDIT: Doing tricks with CTRL-v does not work as it always selected a rectangle. Here I vertically selected the fs and then did w for word-skip.

Answer 1

Go to the first letter of the word, and press

<C-v>w

that selects the word. You may use

<C-v>5w

to select e.g. 5 words. Then you do whatever you want, e.g. to copy to clipboard you do

" * y

Answer 2

If memory serves:

/field1<CR><C-v>2jf)