Submitted by viking on 2022/02/09 00:50

I just want to confirm that it is not possible to use wildcards with "Find and Replace"?

(see here: https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/node/5049).

For example, I tried to append a bunch of items with "app" like this

Find: *
Replace: *app

On the other hand, the new Find dialog supports wildcards (but not to replace).

(This is not a feature request).
 

Comments

Indeed, wildcards would be nice !

But wildcards and highlighting are not really compatible, that is why even Microsoft / Google don't offer it as a feature in their browsers !
(Find on page) 😮

To append content to a bunch of items, you can use the Properties pane however...

  1. In Manage Fields (field Item) set "Parse if starts with ="
  2. Select items
  3. In the Properties pane, field Item, enter = [Item] & "some extra text"

 

How do I ?