Search & Replace doesn't quite work

[big0mike]

I'm using WeBuilder 8.3.1.81, still trying it out, and I've found a peculiar bug in both the Replace & Replace in files function that is frustrating me.

I've got this bit of text to s&r:

WeBuilder will absolutely NOT find this chunk of text and replace it.

There's obviously something that is preventing the program from finding the text. Maybe the # in the HREF statement? Or the <!-- comments which is what I'm trying to remove globally?

I dunno why but that text is in multiple files and I opened HomeSite and used it's S&R function and it worked perfectly so the text must obviously be the same.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

[Gatis]

Please send a code example and the text you are trying to find to our support email address. Thanks.

[big0mike]

It has been sent.

I was able to search for the comments, tabs, and LI tag at the beginning of line 57 and replace those as well as the LI and the closing comments at the end so I don't think it's the comments causing a problem.

[Karlis]

What if you turn off word-wrap?

[big0mike]

I dunno. I have since S&Rd everything that I needed and have been unable to duplicate the issue so I don't know if Word Wrap makes a difference. If it happens again I'll make sure to copy the files in question to another directory so I can play with them.

[Karlis]

Thanks!

[mattlavallee]

I can definitely agree that S&R seems a bit buggy.

Today, I was searching for ").Value" and I could not stop it from trying to evaluate the expression as a regex. It would replace any series of characters that trailed an open parenthesis.

Any ideas?

-Matt

[big0mike]

Ran into another situation where S&R wasn't working properly.

http://www.bigmikes.org/test.zip is a bunch of html files.

Since the code tags don't work for s**t the text I searched for and tried to replace with are at http://www.bigmikes.org/test.txt

It found nothing while searching in the directory the files were in and search subfolders was checked.

When I open ALL those files and do a S&R on open files it replaced everything.

See what you can find out about the problem now.

Mike

[syrupcore]

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<li><a href="#" class="flyout" name="btn_costume"
								onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout()"
								onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0114160544_3,160,0,null,'btn_costume');">Costume Info</a></li>

mike, make sure you toggle "Disable HTML in this post" to post html code. I wish phpbb was smart enough to just DO that when you put code in, oh, I dunno [ code ] tags!?

[big0mike]

mike, make sure you toggle "Disable HTML in this post" to post html code. I wish phpbb was smart enough to just DO that when you put code in, oh, I dunno [ code ] tags!?

Ha... been using phpBB for a while and never really knew what that option would be used for. Now I know. Thanks!

[llbbl]

I think the popup box that comes up if you dont find anything is annoying. ><

[Karlis]

I think the popup box that comes up if you dont find anything is annoying. ><

You can turn that off in options.

We will take a look at the bug-report. Please do not remove the .zip fle for now.

[big0mike]

We will take a look at the bug-report. Please do not remove the .zip fle for now.

I'll leave it where it is until I hear some type of results from you...

[big0mike]

Has this issue been addressed any further? In the last week I've run into it several times... it's not a HUGE issue but having to open HomeSite to do a simple S&R is a little frustrating.

[Karlis]

No this has not been addressed it is still in the queue.