Bug: Search/Replace All does not replace all

Jay Imerman

For example, paste the following into Notepad++, then press Ctrl-H, search for double-quote “, and replace with backslash-double-quote \”, pick Replace All. Note that not all are replaced.

Notepad++ x64 v7.8.4

TEST EXAMPLE:

{
“elements”: [
{
“name”: {
“locale”: {
“country”: “US”,
“language”: “en”
},
“value”: “Sacramento, California Area”
},
“country”: “urn:li:country:us”,
“id”: 82,
“$URN”: “urn:li:region:82”,
“states”: [
“urn:li:state:(urn:li:country:us,CA)”,
“urn:li:state:(urn:li:country:us,NV)”
]
},
{
“name”: {
“locale”: {
“country”: “US”,
“language”: “en”
},
“value”: “San Francisco Bay Area”
},
“country”: “urn:li:country:us”,
“id”: 84,
“$URN”: “urn:li:region:84”,
“states”: [
“urn:li:state:(urn:li:country:us,CA)”
]
},
…
],
“paging”: {
“count”: 10,
“start”: 0
}
}

Alan Kilborn

@Jay-Imerman

Works fine for me. Maybe more details about what you are doing (screenshot?) and what you are ending up with?

Ekopalypse

@Jay-Imerman said in Bug: Search/Replace All does not replace all:

Note that not all are replaced.

This makes me suspect that the replacements are all after the current
caret position and you haven’t checked wrap around, is that right?

guy038

Hello, @jay-imerman and All,

And, if you run this S/R, using the Regular expression search mode, you must adopt this syntax :

SEARCH "

REPLACE \\"

because the Escape \ is a special regex character and needs to be escaped, itself, with an other \ symbol, to be taken as a literal !

Best Regards,

guy038