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**DO NOT USE THIS TAG** unless your question applies ONLY to Emacs version 24.4.

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Replace whole words only

If you provide the universal argument to replace-string, that is by pressing C-u before M-x replace-string, it only replaces matches that are surrounded by word boundaries. So, for example, a buffer …
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