Sorry to resurrect an old topic, but this was the nearest I could find to the question I have.
This topic refers to finding and replacing the exact same words (i.e. string). I wonder whether there is an option to refer to a whole word only? If there is, I have not been able to find it.
The reason for my question is that yesterday I had a number of images, with the keywords "Europe" and "European". I wanted to delete the former but retain the latter, so performed a search and replace, replacing "Europe" with a space. This indeed removed all occurrences of "Europe", but also left me with multiple occurrences of " an" instead of "European". This did not seem to be undo-able, and doing a further search and replace on " an" would have affected other unrelated keywords.
Therefore, is it possible to search for an exact string, or a whole word only, to avoid this kind of issue, and if not, could this functionality be considered? Now that I am aware of it, I can search for "Europe, European" and replace this with "European", but it would be preferable not to have to resort to this kind of fix, particularly as it would not work with non-adjacent keywords.
