Bug 816806

Summary:	Project-wide replace treats search as a regular expression instead of literal string
Product:	[Retired] Zanata	Reporter:	David Mason <damason>
Component:	Component-UI	Assignee:	David Mason <damason>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Joyce Chang <jochang>
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Priority:	high
Version:	1.6-SNAPSHOT	CC:	petersen, sflaniga, zanata-bugs
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Target Release:	1.6-beta-1
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Fixed In Version:	1.6.0-alpha-3-SNAPSHOT (20120430-0019)	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2012-06-22 00:58:07 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description David Mason 2012-04-27 03:57:44 UTC

Description of problem:
After running a project-wide search, when using the replace feature, the search is treated as a regular expression, so '.' will match any character and '?' at the beginning of the search string causes an error in replacement.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.6-alpha-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Sign in to a project and enter "?testing..." in any two translation fields
2.Navigate to project wide search and replace
3.Search for "..."
4.Enter "!" in the replacement field
5.Click "replace" next to one of the "?testing..." fields
6.Search for "?test", enter "test" in replacement field
7.Click "replace" next to the other "?testing..." field
  
Actual results:
5. string changed to "!!!.."
7. message "Replace text failed" shown and no replacement made

Expected results:
5. string changed to "?testing!"
7. string changed to "testing..."

Additional info:

Comment 1 David Mason 2012-04-27 05:39:02 UTC

Fixed, see: https://github.com/zanata/zanata/commit/abeb121b05c3b31656b372e1a0f9bae6e348eb60

Comment 2 Joyce Chang 2012-05-03 05:16:44 UTC

verified in Zanata version 1.6.0-alpha-3-SNAPSHOT (20120430-0019).