Movable Type User Manual: SEARCH AND REPLACE

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SEARCH AND REPLACE

You can use Movable Type's search and replace functionality either to search through all of your entries for a particular string, or to replace all instances of a string with another string. IMPORTANT: there is no undo feature, so be careful when you use the replace functionality; because of this you may want to export your Movable Type entries before using replace, for backup purposes.

You have the following options when using search and replace:

• Case Sensitive
  If you would like the search string to be treated in a case-sensitive manner, check the Case Sensitive box. This means that the string foo will not match foo, Foo, fOo, etc.

• Regular Expression Match
  If you would like the search string to be treated as a Perl regular expression, check the Regular Expression Match. If you are unsure what this means, you would do best to leave this box unchecked.

• Search fields
  By default, search and replace operates on the Title, Entry Body, and Extended Entry Body fields of each entry in your weblog. You can tune the search and replace to operate on only a subset of these fields by checking and unchecking the Search fields boxes.