Ampersand Causing an Issue

  • Hi. I am currently trying to replace a company name that has an Ampersand (&) in it with a new company name. However, the search box truncates before the &. How do I ensure that the entire company name is searched for.

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  • We are having the same issue on our sites.

    TylerMeansBusiness

    (@tylermeansbusiness)

    I am also trying to replace a company name that has an ampersand. Do we have a resolution for this?

    I am having the same issue. Looked up various solutions such as escaping the &, but the plugin is not able to detect the string if it is encoded. Please update the plugin or provide a workaround. Thanks in advance.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by bharath777.

    try using &amp instead of just &

    I’ve had the same problem and &amp doesn’t work. When I’m done with the find and replace I look at the “find” field and it’s cut off after the first & regardless of whether I do &amp or just &. Makes me think it’s a data sanitation issue in the plugin.

    Unfortunately most replace plugins seem to have similar issues. Going to have to do this in SQL for now, but hopefully someone can fix this as it’d make the plugin more useful and I love it otherwise.

    Just ran into this issue trying to update the links on our website that point to our external registration site. We were able to strip out an org id buried in the middle of the aspx call, but this wouldn’t work (showing no matches…):
    Find: &org=4641&ext=1
    Replace: &ext=1

    So I tried:
    Find: org=4641&ext=1
    Replace: ext=1

    Every link now has &ext=1&ext=1 appended to the end of it!! Thankfully, they still work, but I’d very much like to be able to strip that out, and am terrified of tripling the damage! Hopefully there’s an easy fix, since this thread has gone unanswered (or even responded to) in 6 months…

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