>how select the whole word such in the find and replace ?
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>for exemple :
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>i'm looking for word date in a string. i don't want to select datebirth even if date is there.
>the operator $ doen't do it correctly.
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>i need help.

" date " $ " " + mystring + " "

You may have to do some work to strip out punctuation so that it can find "date," "date." etc.