How to search for one of two similar strings in Vim?
- by Nathan Long
This is a pretty simple regex question, I think. In Vim, if I want do a search that matches planA or planB, I know that I can do this:
/plan[AB]
This works because the regex allows for either A or B as its set of characters.
But how can I specify one of two complete strings? For example, to match both planetAwesome and planetTerrible, this doesn't work:
planet[Awesome|Terrible]
... because it's looking for planetA or planetw or planete, etc. Nor does this:
planet['Awesome'|'Terrible']
This will match both of these, along with planetAnythingHereAsLongAsItsJustLetters:
planet\([a-zA-Z]*\)
But how can I match only strings that match planetAwesome or planetTerrible exactly?
