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Subject: Re: regexps 
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From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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| beginning of word:      (^|[^a-zA-Z0-9])
| end of word:            ($|[^a-zA-Z0-9])

I lust for \< and \>.  In vi, something like
	%s/\<foo\>/gnu/
is wonderfully concise.

| 'course, you still have to narrow dot by one then.  

Hey, no fair leaving parts out. :-)