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    Replace with whole word match only?

    Hi... I'm trying to find a way to do a series of replacements (about 200 at the moment) in two separate strings - but I only want the replace to happen where there is an exact match.

    For example, I want to replace "There is 1 line of text here" with "There is ONE line of text here"
    But I want to ignore the "1" in "There are 104 lines of text here"

    This is a small sample of the way I was doing it, but I'm sure there is a much better way

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    I've tried playing with a leading and trailing space in the value to find, but that isn't working correctly.

    Any idea how to force a whole word match?

    Thanks!

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    Re: Replace with whole word match only?

    Try:

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    Re: Replace with whole word match only?

    TMS - thanks... I would like to do it in the string if possible, but I do have a process that later tokenizes the string and dumps into a column.... will give that a shot, thank you!!!!

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    Re: Replace with whole word match only?

    Not really sure what you are trying to achieve or why but maybe this will help

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    Re: Replace with whole word match only?

    TMS, thank you, will check that out as well.

    To add a little meat to the request, I'm building a tool that compares two documents, which are different versions of transcripts from audio calls, and assigning a score to them based on the content of one "golden" version. At this point in the process, I have two text strings (StringA and StringB) that I'm normalizing before tokenizing and dumping into a pair of columns on the spreadsheet.

    So what I'm trying to do in this phase is remove score deductions we don't really care about, like when Transcript A has "There is 1 line of text here" and the Transcript B has "There is ONE line of text here"

    I have a hidden sheet that has 132 values and their replacements (besides numbers, there are contractions and a few other terms I want to swap out).

    Since these transcripts will be between 20 and 50,000 words each, I think looping through the cells to replace may add a bit too much time, but I haven't finished making the adjustments to the first code bit you provided to test that out.

    Thanks again for your guidance!
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    Re: Replace with whole word match only?

    Yo should loop through your list of words and use global replace for each pair.

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