The findText command seems to have some issues with find and replace using the following kinds of strings:
• Sets of parentheses, this seems to me like there is some sort of code processing that isn’t being isolated from the strings in the Ctrl-F interpreter.
Often when trying to replace strings in parentheses, such as (BY OTHER), it will have unpredictable behavior such as doubling up the strings or not replacing the parentheses –
For example, this request could yield
Foo Bar asdjkdjfalsdkjfdal (BY OTHER) => Foo Bar asdjkdjfalsdkjfdal ((test)) or Foo Bar asdjkdjfalsdkjfdal test test or Foo Bar asdjkdjfalsdkjfdal ()
• A blank or a single space in the “replace” field
This will often insert the last string you attempted to replace with.
If I instead tried to replace “Bar” with “” <=(empty string, no quote marks in the box)
And previously I had put the string “Baz” in the replace field,
Despite the replace field being blank, it could result in Foo Bar asdjkdjfalsdkjfdal => Foo Baz asdjkdjfalsdkjfdal
the same thing can happen sometimes if there is a single space in the replace field
Finally, here is my feature request:
It would be VERY useful if you could put this menu in the Ctrl-F field, as well as line in it that would allow you to insert/delete newline characters. doesn’t work with \n to the best of my knowledge.
Thanks so much!!!