UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open DevTools
2. Cmd+Option+F to open "Search in Files"
3. Try to search for "|" (quotes included)
4. You might or might not check ignore case, but leave Regular expression OFF
5. Do the search
6. Notice that instead of search results only show the string you searched for, it shows every single pipe character

What is the expected behavior?
That the search in files with regular expression off should search for the EXACT string that's been entered by the user. 

What went wrong?
The string is somehow modified and quotes are being ignored, even though regular expression is off. Example:

I'm trying to find a code like the following: alert( var1 + "|" + var2 );

But by searching quote pipe quote ("|") I get every single pipe in all files, which is wrong. If I wanted every single pipe, I'd search for | only.

I could only manage to search what I wanted with a regular expression ("|')[\|]("|'). I'm forced into a regular expression or by escaping the quotes, like \"|\" which is wrong. As PhistucK mentioned in the discussion forum, searching for "var issue" (unquoted) does not yield results (lines?) that have var and issue (which are not necessarily "var issue").

if we don't have regular expression checked, search should've been a simple "find this string".

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 58.0.3015.0 canary (64-bit)  Channel: canary
OS Version: OS X 10.12.2
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

Discussion @ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-chrome-developer-tools/MoHkB_clpmY

 

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