vim does not find and replace simple phrase that is clearly present

Question

I have a simple vim problem that Google hasn\'t managed to help me with. Any thoughts are appreciated.

I do the following search and replace:

:s/numnode         


        

Answer 1

Try :%s/searchphrase/replacephase/g

Without the % symbol Vim only matches and replaces on the current line.

Answer 2

try using this:

:%s/numnodes/numnodes1/g