Find & Replace Text Online
Updating a repeated word across a long document, swapping a placeholder with real content, or correcting the same typo in dozens of places one by one takes longer than it should. Paste your text here, type what you want to find and what to replace it with, and every match gets swapped in one go. Nothing is uploaded.
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How it works
Paste your text into the main panel. Type the word or phrase you want to find in the Find (Target) field, and what you want to replace it with in the Replace With field. Auto-run will do the rest, or click Run (if Auto-run off) and every occurrence gets swapped at once. Leave the replace with field empty to delete all matches instead of replacing them.
The four options
Replace All Occurrences swaps every match in the text in a single pass. With it off, only the first match gets replaced. Turn it on for bulk editing and leave it off when you only want to change a specific instance.
Match Case treats uppercase and lowercase as different characters. With it on, searching for “Status” only matches “Status” and skips “status” or “STATUS”. Turn it off and all variations get replaced regardless of capitalization. For code, where variable and function names are case-specific, always keep this on.
Match Whole Word limits replacements to standalone words. Searching for “log” with this on replaces “log” but leaves “login”, “logout”, and “catalog” untouched. Without it, every string containing those letters gets replaced, which causes problems in structured text and code.
Use Regex lets you search for patterns rather than fixed text. Instead of typing one specific email address, a regex pattern matches every email address in the same format. Instead of listing every HTML tag individually, one pattern removes them all. For simple word and phrase replacements you do not need it, but for matching dates, numbers, tags, or any consistent text format across a document, it is the right approach.
Where this gets used
Template processing is one of the most common uses. Documents built from templates use placeholders like [CLIENT_NAME] or {{invoice_date}} that need swapping with real values before sending. Paste the template, replace each placeholder, and the document is ready.
Fixing recurring typos in long documents is another. If a name or term was misspelled throughout a draft, one replacement operation catches every instance without manually scrolling through the whole text.
Data cleaning uses find and replace to normalize inconsistent values. A column of country names where some entries say “US”, some say “USA”, and some say “United States” can be standardized in a few passes. Running the output through the remove extra spaces tool afterwards cleans up any stray whitespace left behind from the replacements.
Code refactoring outside an IDE is useful when you have a snippet or config file in plain text and need to rename a variable, swap an API endpoint, or change a repeated value without opening a full editor.