Feature Request: Add option for regex search and replace

[m-rey]

The current search and replace functionality helps a lot when translating some strings. It would be even more powerful if users could further specify search queries using regular expressions.

This would be very useful, for example when you want to replace whole words, but not words that merely contain the search string:

Regex often offers \b as an option to delimit strings as words. The regular expression \bexam\b would therefore find a match in custom exam questions:, but not in see this example:.

I'm sure that also offering a regex search for the search-and-replace feature would have even more use cases than the one I've described. Users with regex knowledge could greatly profit from it and refine their search results to those that they've envisioned.

[sunilpaulmathew]

@m-rey
Probably I'm stupid, but I can't understand the real point in this issue? Can I have a more simplified example. The, definitely, I'll have a look. And, extremely sorry for the delayed response. Thank you.

[faisal8048003]

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