Migration: How to preserve serial length

R van Wingerden

Hello

When I migrate my website to my localhost then I use notepad++ to modified my .sql file.
Example find https://oldname and replace http://newname, working fine.
Next I import my .sql file. All is running fine, except

I loss my widget_text information, see below.

I find out that the data has a serial length counter build in, example
s:15:“About This Site”
Where s:15 is the length of the data…

QST Is there a option in Notepad++ to preserve (modified automatically )

Thx Robert Poland

(79, ‘widget_text’, ‘a:5:{i:2;a:4:{s:5:“title”;s:7:“Find Us”;s:4:“text”;s:168:“Address\n123 Main Street\nNew York, NY 10001\n\nHours\nMonday—Friday: 9:00AM–5:00PM\nSaturday & Sunday: 11:00AM–3:00PM”;s:6:“filter”;b:1;s:6:“visual”;b:1;}i:3;a:4:{s:5:“title”;s:15:“About This Site”;s:4:“text”;s:85:“This may be a good place to introduce yourself and your site or include some credits.”;s:6:“filter”;b:1;s:6:“visual”;b:1;}i:4;a:4:{s:5:“title”;s:7:“Find Us”;s:4:“text”;s:168:“Address\n123 Main Street\nNew York, NY 10001\n\nHours\nMonday—Friday: 9:00AM–5:00PM\nSaturday & Sunday: 11:00AM–3:00PM”;s:6:“filter”;b:1;s:6:“visual”;b:1;}i:5;a:4:{s:5:“title”;s:15:“About This Site”;s:4:“text”;s:85:“This may be a good place to introduce yourself and your site or include some credits.”;s:6:“filter”;b:1;s:6:“visual”;b:1;}s:12:“_multiwidget”;i:1;}’, ‘yes’),

PeterJones

@R-van-Wingerden said:

Is there a option in Notepad++ to preserve

I’m not sure what you’re trying to preserve, or what you think Notepad++ didn’t preserve for you.

If you only changed https://oldname to https://newname, then nothing else should have changed. However, if your oldname or newname were not literally those, but included regex characters, and you had enabled regular expression search/replace mode, then that might explain things.

But so far, I don’t see that you’ve given us enough information.

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