Text Tools

Find and replace, with a count

Paste text, say what to find and what to replace it with, and see how many replacements were made. That count is the point — “replaced 0” tells you the pattern is wrong, which identical-looking output does not.

The search is plain text, so characters like . and * match themselves.

Result

Paste text above and enter something to find.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No account required
  • Free to use

How it works

01

The search is literal unless you say otherwise

Looking for “a.b” finds “a.b” and not “axb”, because the search text is escaped before it is used. That is what people expect and what most tools get wrong by treating everything as a pattern. Regular expressions are available behind a checkbox for when you do want them.

02

A broken pattern is a message, not a crash

Typing an unclosed bracket while writing a regular expression is normal. Rather than let that throw an error mid-keystroke and take the page with it, the pattern is compiled defensively and the problem is reported under the field.

03

Whole-word matching means what it says

With it on, searching for “cat” changes “cat” but leaves “cats” and “concatenate” alone. Without it, all three match — which is the classic way a careless replace mangles a document.

What it does

A live count of replacements

Updates as you type, so you know immediately whether the pattern matches what you think it does.

Case, whole word and regex

Three independent switches. Case-insensitive by default, because that is what catches inconsistently typed text.

Capture groups supported

In regex mode, $1 and $2 in the replacement refer to captured groups — enough to reformat dates or swap the halves of a list.

Nothing uploaded

The replacement runs in your browser, so documents you would not paste into a stranger’s server are safe to work on here.

Practical advice

Getting a better result

  • Leave the replacement field blank to delete every match rather than replace it.
  • Turn on whole-word matching before replacing short words. Replacing “is” without it will find it inside “this” and “list”.
  • Check the count before copying the result. It is the fastest way to catch a pattern that matched far more or far less than you intended.
  • In regex mode, \d matches a digit, \s whitespace, and + means one or more of the preceding thing.

Questions

Things people ask

Does it support regular expressions?

Yes, behind a checkbox. It is off by default so that searching for characters like . * and ? finds those characters rather than being interpreted as a pattern. With it on, capture groups are available in the replacement as $1, $2 and so on.

Why does my replacement affect words I did not mean?

Almost always because whole-word matching is off. Searching for “art” will otherwise match inside “start” and “particle”. Turn it on and only the standalone word is replaced.

Is the search case-sensitive?

Not by default, because inconsistently typed text is the common case. Tick “match case” when the difference matters — for identifiers, code or anything case-carrying.

Who builds these

Free tools by day. Websites that earn their keep by trade.

KuConvert is built by KUDUY, a web design and development agency. From custom WordPress builds to SEO and e-commerce, everything they do is engineered to bring you more qualified traffic and turn it into revenue.

  • Fixed scope, no surprise invoices

    Most sites ship in four to eight weeks with the scope and the price agreed up front.

  • SEO from day one

    Search is designed into the build — structure, schema and Core Web Vitals — not retrofitted.

  • A team, not a ticket queue

    A project manager, a designer and a developer you can actually reach.

Need your whole site to load this fast?

Images are usually the heaviest thing on a page and the easiest win. KUDUY works on site speed, image delivery and Core Web Vitals for teams who would rather not do it by hand.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.