Find and Replace?

DMotel · Post by **DMotel** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:08 pm

I have a Blog that is filled with Q and A's I want to change "Q" and "A" to "Question" and "Answer" throughout all of the entries. Is that possible?
Thanks

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:26 am

Hi!

DMotel wrote:I have a Blog that is filled with Q and A's I want to change "Q" and "A" to "Question" and "Answer" throughout all of the entries. Is that possible?
Thanks

This could best be done by exporting a SQL dump and doing search+replace there, then re-uploading the dump.

Doing automatic replacement within the entries is dangerous. You could replace " Q " with "Question" and " A " with "Answer", but then you need the spaces before and after that everywhere. If you just replace "Q" with "Question" you would get "Queue" replaced to "Questionueu".

Best regards,
Garvin

DMotel · Post by **DMotel** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:37 pm

Can I export the sql through serendipity admin?
Also I am going to be changing "Q :" and "A :" so the colon should help solve the problem about replacing too much right?

d_cee · Post by **d_cee** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:46 am

Hi

you'll need to use phpMyAdmin or similar to export the sql dump.

And yes, if you search for 'Q :' you should avoid changing any 'q's' that you don't want to replace.

HTH

Dave

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