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Find and replace specific strings in your text online. Supports batch replacement, perfect for content editing, data cleaning, and document proofreading.
Enter source text to see replacement output
Overview
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This find and replace text tool takes a text block, one search string, and one replacement string. It finds every non-overlapping occurrence of the search text and substitutes the replacement. The match is literal: punctuation such as a period or asterisk is treated as that character, not as a regular expression. The result is plain text, while your original input remains available for comparison.
Case sensitivity starts enabled. Turn it off when capitalization should not matter. The match count reports how many occurrences were replaced, not whether each change makes sense in context. A blank search does nothing; a blank replacement removes the matched text.
Guide
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Paste or type the text you want to edit. Retain the original elsewhere if the wording matters, since the result should be reviewed before reuse.
Type the characters to find, including punctuation and spaces. The search field is for one continuous string; it does not accept a pattern for variable text or line breaks.
Enter the new text, or leave the replacement empty to delete each match. Keep case sensitivity on for identifiers such as OrderID; switch it off to match capitalization variants.
Check the number of matches and scan the beginning, middle, and end of the result. Then copy the revised plain text where it belongs.
For example, replacing 2025 with 2026 in “Plan 2025; archive 2025” produces “Plan 2026; archive 2026” and reports two matches. Searching for . only finds periods.
Use cases
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Change one settled spelling or product label throughout a pasted draft, then inspect nearby words for accidental substring matches.
Swap one repeated comma, dash, or separator in a copied list. The output is text and does not interpret spreadsheet columns or CSV quoting.
Replace a repeated placeholder such as [PROJECT]. Run separate passes for different placeholders, checking each result before using it as the next input.
Q&A
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No. The search value is matched literally, so characters such as *, ., and brackets have no pattern meaning. There is also no whole-word-only setting.
No. Each pass uses one find-and-replace pair. To make several changes, put the previous result back into the text input and run the next pair; consider how one replacement may create a match for a later pass.
Matches can occur inside a larger string. Searching for art can match the start of artist. Include surrounding spaces or punctuation when appropriate, and check edge cases such as the start of a line.
Notes
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A global text replacement changes every matching substring. A match count cannot tell whether each occurrence was intended, so preserve the source and check the output before publishing or importing it.
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