replace first occurred only

[gfpoow 0]

how to replace text / replace regex first occurred only?

there is a text (scraped article), i want to change first occured text only (example i want to replace the -> THE

how to do that?

 

thanks for your help

[JohnB 255]

You can add the article to a list and check each line and replace whatever you want, but if it occurs twice in a line, it will replace both.

 

 

John

[Kreatus (Ubot Ninja) 422]

Here's the regex code to select the first word occurrence of every line

^\w+\b