Free Find and Replace Text Online
Find any text or regex pattern and replace it in bulk. Supports plain text, case-insensitive and full regex modes. Highlights all matches before you replace.
About Find and Replace
This tool lets you find any word, phrase or pattern in a block of text and replace it with something else — all at once. It is useful for bulk editing copied content, renaming variables in code snippets, correcting repeated typos, or performing complex transformations using regular expressions.
Unlike a simple text editor, this tool's "Highlight Matches" feature shows you all matches colour-highlighted before you commit to replacing them, preventing accidental changes.
How to Use Find and Replace
Paste Your Text
Enter the text you want to edit in the text area.
Enter Find & Replace
Type what you want to find in the "Find" box and the replacement in "Replace With".
Preview or Replace
Click "Highlight Matches" to preview, or "Replace All" to apply the replacement immediately.
Copy Result
Use "Copy Result" to copy the updated text, or "Undo" to revert.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! Enable the "Use regex" checkbox, then enter any JavaScript-compatible regular expression in the Find box. For example, enter \d+ to match all numbers. Capture groups work in the replacement field using $1, $2 etc.
It wraps the search term in word boundary anchors (\b) so only whole words match. For example, searching "cat" won't match "concatenate" — only standalone "cat" occurrences.
Yes. Leave the "Replace With" field empty and click "Replace All". All matches will be deleted from the text.
Yes. The "Undo" button restores the text to the state it was in before the last "Replace All" operation, giving you one level of undo.