Way to have String.Replace only hit “whole words”

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A regex is the easiest approach:

string input = "test, and test but not testing.  But yes to test";
string pattern = @"\btest\b";
string replace = "text";
string result = Regex.Replace(input, pattern, replace);
Console.WriteLine(result);

The important part of the pattern is the \b metacharacter, which matches on word boundaries. If you need it to be case-insensitive use RegexOptions.IgnoreCase:

Regex.Replace(input, pattern, replace, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

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