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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Turning the into an
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Date: 12 Dec 90 15:12:18 GMT
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0004068145@mcimail.com (Ari Kahan) writes:
>joshi@motcid.UUCP (Abhay B. Joshi) writes:

>> I have a simple text-file containing the following text (3 lines):
>>
>>      The goal:
>>      All I am trying to do is replace the 'the's by 'an's.
>>      That's all.

>:g/\<the\>/s//an/g

If that's all, why not do it simpler:

:%s/\<the\>/an/g

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