Thanks Max and Chip, I didn't realis that \< and \> were used to denote
the beginning and end of the word and therefore they could be used
separately, I always just thought of them as a way of getting an exact
match, which I suppose is almost the same thing, however, I still don't
understand why you can't exclusively mark the start of this string with \<
Thanks for the help,
Rob.
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
Max Dyckhoff wrote:
As I understand it, the \< and \> tokens represent the beginning and end
of a word. This means that the character immediately after the \< token
must be a word character, namely letters, numbers, and underscore (as
defined by the iskeyword option).
Max
...snip: At some points in my code I had a variable that was a pointer
that
was denoted (in C) by:
*iterNum
I wanted to replace instances of exactly this string globally between
my
present position and line 791, with:
j
So try
:791,.s/\*iterNum\>/j/g
(or :.,791s/... depending on what your current line is rltv to 791)
Regards,
Chip Campbell
