Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Find and replace

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VisualEditor includes a powerful Find and Replace tool. After loading a page in VisualEditor, you can access it from Menu icon , then choosing Find and replace. You can also press Ctrl+G or ⌘ Cmd+G.

Regular expressions

Switch on button, to enable regular expressions (regex).

In the Find field, some special characters are interpreted as PCRE metacharacters. See documentation.

If you capture subpattern using parentheses, you may reuse captured string in Replace field with ordered $1, $2 … $n variables.

Limitations

You cannot look for newline character.

You cannot replace a phrase based on a lookahead or lookbehind regex.