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#8026

Replacing list of words with regex 1 Year, 10 Months ago

I would like to replace a long list of case-sensitive specific phrases or words with a fixed link and then the found word or phrase.

For instance, find the Phrase:

Color J

and replace with

<a href="samelink">Color J</a>

Or find the phrase:

IF

and replace with

<a href="samelink">IF</a>

The reason I wan to do this with regex is so that I can just write a single long regex search without using the regular word search list function, where I would have to maintain two long lists.

Can you get me started on the syntax for the regex, or should I just use the regular word search list replace function?

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#8033

Re: Replacing list of words with regex 1 Year, 10 Months ago
Search: `\b(Dog\|Cat\|Fish)\b` Replace: `<a href="samelink">\1</a>` The \b is a word boundary, preventing it to also match stuff like Cathy and Fishstick.

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Re: Replacing list of words with regex 1 Year, 10 Months ago
Awesome. I was getting caught up with the boundries; could not figure out how to use them! Thanks!

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