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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
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Subject: delimited strings in vi
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.150642.15386@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 4 Jun 90 15:06:42 GMT
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 Can someone tell me how I can do things like search and replace
on delimited characters such as in TXED where CD/the//a/* will
change "the" to "a" but not touch words like "them" or "there" etc.
in vi/ex/sed.
Pls e-mail thks.

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Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer         Environment Canada
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