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# Match The Beginning And End Of Words
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Often when doing a substitution for an exact word, say `user` to
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`admin`, I will include spaces on either end of the regex pattern to avoid
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unintentional replacements. For example, I may use something like
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```
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:%s/ user / admin /
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```
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in order to avoid a substitution like `username` to `adminname`.
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In this case, the spaces can be replaced with zero-width regex characters
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that match the beginning and end of a word. These are `\<` and `\>`,
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respectively. Utilizing these, the previous substitution can be achieved
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with
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```
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:%s/\<user\>/admin/
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```
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See `:h /\<` and `:h /\>` for more details.
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