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Old 07-23-03, 13:11
chillies chillies is offline
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Thanks Damian ... I didn't know about the boundaries in sed and vi.

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Originally posted by Damian Ibbotson
(the above doesn't take into the 'word' being at the beginning of the line or the end of the line, so you'd have to string a few commands together to get exactly what you want!)
And possibly the string has hyphenation. It's a can of worms!
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