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Find text and replace it instantly — supports plain text matching and full regular expressions, right in your browser.

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Find & Replace
Find text and replace it — supports plain text and regular expressions
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About Find and Replace Tool

Find and replace is one of the most-used text editing operations. This tool supports plain text substitution, case-sensitive matching, whole-word matching, and regular expression (regex) patterns for advanced users. Regular expressions enable powerful bulk replacements - for example, replacing all dates in DD-MM-YYYY format with YYYY-MM-DD for database import.

Practical applications: standardising formatting in data exports (replacing em dashes with hyphens, standardising quote styles); bulk updating text in content before publishing; cleaning up data by removing specific characters, tags, or patterns; replacing placeholder text with real values in template documents. The preview function lets you see all matches before applying replacements to avoid unintended changes in complex documents.

Frequently Asked Questions

Regex mode treats your "Find" input as a JavaScript regular expression instead of literal text, enabling powerful pattern-based replacements — such as reformatting all dates from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD in one pass.
The tool catches the error and displays an "Error:" message with the details instead of crashing, so you can correct your pattern and try again.
By default, "Replace all" is checked, which replaces every match in the text. Uncheck it to replace only the first occurrence found.
When "Case sensitive" is checked, "Apple" and "apple" are treated as different strings and only exact-case matches are replaced. When unchecked, matching ignores letter case.
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