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Question by Bart
Submitted on 6/8/2004
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What command would you use to swap the words hither and yon on any line with any number of
words between them (you need not worry about special punctuation, just upper-and lowercase letters
and spaces)???????



Answer by martinwguy
Submitted on 1/8/2006
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:%s/\<hither\>/xyzzyflug/g
:%s/\<yon\>/hither/g
:%s/xyzzyflug/yon/g

and idem for Hither and Yon, HITHER and YON

Is that what you mean?

 

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