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Status: Archived
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Closed: Aug 14
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OS: All
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Ability to use regular expressions in Find or by key combination CTRL + F

Reported by matasw...@gmail.com, Feb 29 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Click Ctrl + F
2. Enter Regular expression (\d)
3. Nothing found

What is the expected behavior?
To find all numbers on the page

What went wrong?
No items found

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 48.0.2564.116  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0

There was same issue raised 6 years ago but developer who got assigned this issue being lazy suggested to use non working extension and closed the issue. Had he tried the extensions currently offered he would have realized that they are not very usable and introduce issues or simply do not work. 

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=43164

Thanks.
 
Components: UI>Browser>FindInPage
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
As the issue is of type feature marking it as Untriaged to get more inputs from dev team.

Thanks,
Labels: -OS-Windows OS-All
I support having a feature like this. Even if we don't get full regex support, perhaps we could implement some very small subset of regex-like features, like matching any integer in the reporter's example.

Also, not a Windows-specific feature.
Also, there are a lot of duplicates of this request. Any ideas on how to merge? Should we even try to merge?

Some of these have been merged into  Issue 225324  previously.
Status: Archived (was: Untriaged)
Archiving old bugs that haven't been modified in over two years. 

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!

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