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From: tmb@bambleweenie57.ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Re: DELIMITED search
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Date: 3 Dec 90 00:03:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: spcecdt@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us's message of 2 Dec 90 02:32:44 GMT

In article <107@deeptht.UUCP> spcecdt@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us (John DuBois) writes:
   In article <1990Oct29.134654.18929@cid.aes.doe.CA>, 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?

Use the RE /\<the\>/. This _is_ documented...

	I just began getting comp.editors so I don't know if this has been
   noted yet, but in egrep (and other text processing utilities that
   understand egrep-style expressions) you can search for
   (^| )the( |$)

But not in VI.

   You can replace the spaces with [ <tab>] (space followed by tab in
   brackets) if you want to include it as a delimiter.


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