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Example 6. Substitute only whole words and not partial matches<br />
Let us assume that you want to change only the whole word ‘his’ to ‘her’ in<br />
the original text mentioned below. If you do the standard substitution, apart<br />
from changing his to her, it will also change This to Ther as shown below.<br />
Standard Substitution:<br />
Original Text: This is his idea<br />
:s/his/her/g<br />
Translated Text: Ther is her idea<br />
Whole Word Substitution:<br />
Original Text: This is his idea<br />
:s/\/her/<br />
Translated Text: This is her idea<br />
Note: You should enclose the word with < and > , which will force the<br />
substitution to search only for the full word and not any partial match.<br />
Note 2: novices sometimes use spaces instead of < and >, not realizing this<br />
won't match words at the beginnings and ends of lines or words with<br />
proximate punctuation.<br />
Example 7. Substitute either word1 or word2 with a new word using<br />
a regular expression<br />
In the following example, Vim will replace any occurrences of either good or<br />
nice with awesome.<br />
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