To find and replace all instances of a word in vim, I use
%s/word/newword/g
How do I change this so that it only finds instances of "word" that are whole words?
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A:
You can use \< to match the beginning of a word and \> to match the end:
%s/\<word\>/newword/g
sth
2009-11-22 11:53:26
That works. Is that a regex syntax, or does that only work in vim?
Phenom
2009-11-22 11:54:36
It is a Vim specific regexp syntax. Perl (PCRE) for example uses \b...\b instead.
Mikael S
2009-11-22 11:56:58
A:
For case-sensitive replace.. you can use "\C"
:%s/\<word\>\C/newword/g
It replaces only "word" with newword leaving others like Word,WORD... unreplaced.
Naga Kiran
2009-11-24 20:25:08