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Bug 20597 - Search & Replace : Regular expressions with * does not work


Summary:	Search & Replace : Regular expressions with * does not work

Status:	CLOSED INVALID

Product:	MediaWiki extensions
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	UsabilityInitiative (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC Windows Vista

Importance:	Normal major (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Trevor Parscal

URL:	http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/R...
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Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:	36111
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Reported:	2009-09-11 17:55 UTC by Calcey QA
Modified:	2012-04-19 21:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Calcey QA 2009-09-11 17:55:57 UTC

Reporting against Babaco Release. (Hosted on http://prototype.wikimedia.org)

Steps to Reproduce ::
1) Start creating a new page 
2) Add some text in the edit window 
3) Click 'Search and replace' icon (e.g : Testing MediaWiki )
4) Set search for (Test* ) and Replace with (TESTING)
5) Check flag 'Treat search string as a regular expression'
6) Click 'Replace' button 

<<Testing is replaced with TESTINGing >>



Expected Outcome ::
* in Search string is ignored 
* Also other regular expressions are ignored (^ , $ etc)


Test Environment (Client) ::
Browser (User-Agent):  	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Javascript: 	Enabled
Cookies Enabled: 	Enabled
Java Enabled: 	Enabled
CPU class/type: 	OS/CPU Windows NT 6.0
Screen Width x Height: 	1280 x 800
Screen Color Depth: 	32

Comment 1 Chad H. 2009-09-11 18:08:50 UTC

WORKSFORME?

The regular expression /Test*/ will match "Tes" with any possible number of t's on the end. This could be "Tes" or potentially "Testtttttt". In any case, when using the string "Testing Mediawiki" and I replace /Test*/ with "TESTING" I get "TESTINGing Mediawiki" as I'd expect.

Comment 2 Roan Kattouw 2009-09-11 19:01:55 UTC

As mentioned in comment #1, test* only matching test and not testing is perfectly valid behavior. You seem to want test[^ ]* (test followed by any number of characters that aren't spaces).

Comment 3 Calcey QA 2009-09-29 05:01:51 UTC

Added keyword babaco to the bug

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