That doesn't change the fact that many managers *don't* agree, and writing code to change "foo" to "*$@" will sometimes pay the rent for you and your children.

Oh, that's easily solved. You just ask the manager for a list of words, and ask the manager to tick off for each word wether only the occurrence as an entire word needs to be replaced, as a word beginning, as a word ending, or anywhere inside another word.

Just let the manager make the non-technical decisions. That's what managers are for.

Abigail