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Filters > Replacer Filter
This filter perform search & replace opeartion on names.
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Replace Text box
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Here you should input the string you want to search for.
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Should contain a regular expression if
Use regular expressions
is checked.
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With Text box
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Here you should input the string you want use as a replacement for occurrences
of the searched string.
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You can leave the With
text box empty, to strip (remove) occurrences of the searched string.
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The With text box may contain a
format string with formatting parameters.
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Match Case
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When checked, only occurrences that matches the exact letters casing of the
search string will be replaced.
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Replace only first occurrence
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When checked, only the first occurrence of the search string in each name will
be replaced.
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Replace only whole words
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When checked, only occurrences of the search string which forms a whole word,
will be replaced.
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For an occurrence to form a whole word, the couple of characters before and
after it should not be letters or digits.
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This option cannot be combined with the Use regular expressions
option.
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Use regular expressions
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This option allows you to search for a pattern instead of a literal string and
perform an advanced search and replace.
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When checked, search string will be treated as a Regular
Expression.
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You will be able to use the menu buttons in the right side of the
Search and With
text boxes to input common regular expression tokens.
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The With
text box may contain "$n" tokens, if the search regular expression performs
capturing.
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If seacrch regular expression is not valid, the Replacer Filter will be
disabled.
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See Regular Expressions Reference
for more details.
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Can be applied on any text field.
Examples:
Replace "dog" with "cat", replace only whole words:
The dogs ran away from the big dog >>> The dogs ran away from the
big cat
Replace "\((.+)\)" with "$1", use regular
expressions:
aaa (bbb) ccc >>> aaa bbb ccc