Search and Replace

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi all, was wondering if one of the developers could answer my question.


With the search and replace tool, is it looking inside href tags at all?

So if we were to look for a www.xxx reference will it pick it up and then could I replace the text inside the string?

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I suspect it isn't – Search and Replace only works on strings indexed by Search Manager, which doesn't include the URLs.


However, this is some handy dandy SQL queries that could perform the same thing, if you're brave enough. :slight_smile:

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For internal URLs only, right?



I've done a very quick test with Global Search and Replace to show some clients and the replace did work on URL (external ones..). So yes (it seems), it is looking into hrefs…

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Huh. Even I learn new things about Matrix sometimes. :stuck_out_tongue: