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deliciousbrains / better-search-replace

A simple plugin for updating URLs or other text in a database.
https://bettersearchreplace.com
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Look into allowing regex searches #13

Open mattgrshaw opened 9 years ago

GaryJones commented 6 years ago

Any further thoughts on this? I'd love to be able to search and replace with regex patterns.

mattgrshaw commented 6 years ago

This does sound useful, but we don't have plans to add this in the near future @GaryJones

GaryJones commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the heads-up. Can I ask, for what reason?

I've used https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/ a fair bit in the past, and the regex part works well, though the checking anything but wp_posts seems flakey (no results, poor performance).

Would you be interested in a PR for this feature?

mattgrshaw commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the offer, however our goal right now is to just focus on bug fixes and other small tweaks while we get WP Migrate DB and WP Migrate DB Pro up to feature parity with BSR Free/Pro. At that point we hope to consolidate the two codebases and release BSR as a build of WP Migrate DB.

More info on that and the future of BSR here - https://bettersearchreplace.com/better-search-replace-pro-acquired/

kjenney commented 5 years ago

What's the status of the consolidation?

fharper commented 5 years ago

On their website it's written that it will be implemented in the future, but still not there.

geekykant commented 3 years ago

Looking forward to regex support if it could be please implemented.