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Igorzovisk
Igorzovisk

Reputation: 674

atom - How to replace in Atom without replacing some part of the search?

Let's say I have these lines in a file:

This and an child
That and a entrepreneur
These and a banana
This and an cookie

And I want to replace all an and a that are incorrect.
I can use an [^aeiou] or a ^[aeiou] to find all the incorrects (I think, I'm not good with regexp).
What I want is to replace the incorrects using these expressions without changing the letter after the a/an. How can I do that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 538

Answers (1)

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 20486

You need to use a capturing group, (...), and then include that in the replacement

Search:

an ([^aeiou])
a ([aeiou])

Replace:

a $1
an $1

Upvotes: 4

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