The S command replaces occurrences of one string of characters with another. Format: [+|-][count]S/string-1/string-2/ The slashes represent any non-alphanumeric character used to delimit the two strings. S searches in the specified direction from the cursor and finds an occurrence of string-1. It deletes string-1 and inserts string-2 in its place. Ex: S/1988/1989/