Using Vi how can I find characters and delete them?

Question

I want to search a file and wherever I see the characters "char" I want those to be replaced with nothing. For example

"Character" would end up being "acter" I do not want spaces in place of the char.. simply deleted. How do I do this with xvi?

%/s/char//g does not work

s/char//g

Does not work.

Answer 1

you can use a regex, like so:

s/char//g (as a vi command)

This regex will replace *all* occurrences of 'char' with '', which is what you want.

Answer 2

%s/char//g

There is no / after the %

The actual sequence needs to be preceded by a colon
to get to the command line in vi.

:%s/char//g