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Find and Replace Text

Replace every occurrence of one string with another across a whole block of text. Matching is literal — what you type in the Find box is exactly what gets matched, with no pattern interpretation.

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Result
The quick brown cat jumps over the lazy dog.
About

What the Find and Replace Text does

That literal behaviour is deliberate. In a regex-based replacer, characters like `.`, `$`, `(` and `?` carry special meaning, so searching for '£9.99' or 'What?' can silently match the wrong things. Here those characters match themselves, which is what you want when editing prose, prices or code.

How it works

Using the Find and Replace Text

  1. 1Paste the text you want to edit.
  2. 2Type the exact string to find, including any punctuation and spaces.
  3. 3Type the replacement, or leave it empty to delete every match.
  4. 4Every occurrence is replaced at once — the tool does not stop at the first.
  5. 5Copy the edited text from the output.
Use cases

What people use it for

  • Swapping a product or company name throughout a document
  • Updating an old domain to a new one across a block of links
  • Deleting a repeated boilerplate phrase from an export
  • Changing a delimiter, such as commas to tabs, across pasted data
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