The search does not seem to be escaped

[mrb2590]

FYI

There is some JSON in my database which has some URLs I was trying to replace. The URL is stored in JSON like so: {url: "http:\/\/www.example.com"} Searching for http://example.com did not work and also searching for http:\/\/www.example.com did not work.

What worked was searching for http:\\\/\\\/www.example.com

[kg00]

First, thank you for this amazing script. Been using the old version for years and did not know youhad it updated. The 3.x version is really nice.

Confirming the problem described by mrb2590 above and adding that there is also a problem with the replace part when escaping Searching for images\/Pictures\/ did not work but searching for images\\/Pictures\\/ works fine.

But replacing images\\/Pictures\\/ with images\\/whatever\\/ does not show any changes when Viewing changes in the popup. There it still shows images\\/Pictures\\/ but looking in the actual table, the changes was made as they should.

[stompro]

I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but I found that it isn't possible to preview results when you do a non regex search for something like url(http://newlive.example.org/

It looks like the highlighting fails because it tries to use the search term in a regex with no escaping, so the preview never shows.

(index):1345 Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /url(http://newlive.example.org//: Unterminated group at new RegExp () at HTMLAnchorElement.changes_overlay ((index):1345) at HTMLAnchorElement.dispatch ((index):725) at HTMLAnchorElement.v.handle ((index):725) changes_overlay @ (index):1345 dispatch @ (index):725 v.handle @ (index):725

[gianluigi-icit]

I finally checked this one, I could change the code and make life easier but this change could potentially break some other user's script.

Until we completely refactor this tool, I close this one and #215 .