When you use Find & Replace to change an AXE to a GLAIVE, don't worry. You can settle back and be completely RELGLAIVED as the computer does all the work for you.
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Back when I worked for Sears we once got an EA doc that failed to upload from their end. Upon examination, someone had gone through and replaced “EA” with “Electronic Arts.” On 2000 items. With text that began, “New from EA - live on https://Sears.com…” pushing it all out of category character limits.
To quote my boss, as he calmly explained to the person from EA who had been screaming at him: Yes, it’s true. I laughed, I cried, it was better than CATS.
Not to be that nerd, but everyone should know regex. When those annoying people say “learn to code”, what they really (should) mean is spend 15 minutes on https://regexr.com. ‘\baxe\b’ catches stuff way better than ‘ axe ‘, eg ‘axe,’ and ‘(axe’.
There is a story from the olden days of TSR where halfway through development of 2nd Ed. D&D, they decided to change "mage" to "wizard". They did a F&R, then found every instance of the word "damage" changed to "dawizard". 😂
Might be apocryphal, but I don't care, it's canon for me.
@rosemarykirstein.bsky.social did an ebook release where, somehow, all instances of "replace" got replaced with "With." Resulting in, for example, people warming up in front of a fiWith.
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My professor didn’t find it bewildering so much as bewildsarahg.
Might be apocryphal, but I don't care, it's canon for me.
Absolutely true story.
1. a "do you mean this set of characters or the actual word" option and
2. a build-your-own-regular-expressions option
The protagonist gets pulled over for erratic driving on the turnwalleye.
He only had one drink, but police suspect it was swalleyed.