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From the Main window menu use [Edit] [Text find and replace]. The entries to be scanned can be selected first.
This is used to make global searches and replacements to entry texts.
It is possible to restrict the find and replace to one or more of these main text types:
•Entry texts
•Interviewer instructions
•Response texts
•Base texts
Text searches are normally case sensitive. There is a check box to [Ignore case in search pattern].
You can choose:
•Simple (not regular expression) - search for a group of characters and replace them with another group of characters
•Regular expression - search and replace using a regular expression and substitute texts
For notes on how to use regular expressions here, see Definitions, Regular expressions find and Regular expressions replace.
This scans the chosen texts for entries currently selected on the main window and displays all texts found that contains the search pattern. The display shows the text with the replacements.
IMPORTANT: you must have a replacement string (which can be the same as the search string) in order to see the locations of the found text.
This replaces all the texts containing the search string with the replacement string. A display of all the changed texts is shown. The number of entries and responses changed is shown at the end.