Find/Replace when editor has added newlines

[ann.jensen]

Hi,
I need to do a Find/Replace in Files across my entire project for the phrase

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   <ph conref="../../../../../t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/iproperty"/>

However, in many instances Oxygen has put in a newline which breaks this up e.g.

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   <cmd>Log in to <ph

                        conref="../../../../../t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/iproperty"/> as a

                    user with an Add and Update HOA role.</cmd>

Is there some option in Find/Replace in Files that will allow the search to find such instances?
Thanks in advance,
Ann

[Radu]

Hi Ann,

In the Find/Replace in Files dialog there's a checkbox called "Ignore extra whitespaces". If you enable that, Oxygen should ignore extra whitespaces which may appear in your search string.

Regards,
Radu

[ann.jensen]

Hi Radu,
But the extra white spaces are not in my search string, they are in the source that I am searching.
Thanks,
Ann

[Radu]

Hi Ann,

Please try the checkbox. It should do what you want. It ignores extra whitespaces found in the XML document between the pieces of content you are searching for.

Regards,
Radu

[ann.jensen]

Hi Radu,
Sorry I should have said that I did try it earlier but it didn't pick up on those instances in source where there was a newline.
Regards,
Ann

[Radu]

Hi Ann,

What I did to test this on my side was to have in the project a DITA task containing something like:

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<step>

        <cmd>Remove the o<ph 

          conref="../../../../../t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/iproperty"/>ld oil filter.</cmd>

      </step>

and then using Find/Replace in Files, searching for <ph conref="../../../../../t_content_refs.dita#t_content_refs/iproperty"/> with the checkbox enabled. And it worked for me, the match was found although it was on multiple lines.

Regards,
Radu

[ann.jensen]

Ok, I see that does work now.
I don't know what I was doing this morning that it wasn't finding the phrases that I copied in
Sorry for the confusion,
Regards,
Ann