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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: DELIMITED search
Message-ID: <62420022@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 90 01:11:59 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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In comp.editors, afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA writes:

>    How, in general, can I do delimited searches in UNIX. i.e. How do I
>    search for say the string "the" without finding there their other
>    thesaurus...... AND including "the" at the beginning and end of a line
>    eh?

I'm not quite sure what you mean with "in UNIX", but within vi at least,
you can search for

/\<the\>

and you will find only stand-alone the's.  Also \<the finds words
beginning with the, etc.

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com