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Question by vic
Submitted on 2/23/2004
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I need to replace all instances of '_A' with '_B'. The only catch is, that I need to do this for instances of '_A' ONLY at the tail end of a word. Not when '_A' is embedded in the middle of a word. Any suggestions?

Answer by vi_guy
Submitted on 3/31/2004
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$ indicates the end of a line, so :%s/_A$/_B/ will replace all occurances of _A at the end of the line with _B.occurances

Answer by martinwguy
Submitted on 1/8/2006
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:%s/_A\>/_B/g \> means "end of word".

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