Super-helpful plugin, seems one small bug

  • Love this plugin – it makes so many changes so easy, as long as you’re very careful before hitting “Replace & Save” first!

    I’ve started using multi-line and dot-all (mentioned under Search Options here) and it looks like that functionality is a little buggy…

    For example, make sure Regex, multi-line, and dot-all are checked, and search for:

    /(src\s*=\s*['"](.+?)['"])(.*)/

    and replace with (but don’t save!):

    $1 new-attr=”1″$2

    This would add a new attribute to only the first images in all your WP posts… But you’ll see that the IMG tag’s URL unexpectedly reappears in $2!

    Because the \2 backreference is not correct, the operation is nonfunctional.

    Has anyone else run across this type of thing?

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  • CB

    (@cbrandt)

    Hi @roam92,

    Your regex has 3 capture groups, being $2 within $1:

    $1 = from src to closing " (includes $2)
    $2 = the URL
    $3 = the remaining of the multi-line

    In a test website, it did work when the replacement string was changed to:

    $1 new-attr="1"$3

    Thread Starter roam92

    (@roam92)

    Thanks, good catch!

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