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Allow variable to be set to result of search and replace

It would be useful to perform a search and replace to a variable then place the result into another variable. Also doable, but more complicated in both implementation and use, is to allow lookahead regexes.

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NY

Yes, I was expecting that if the result is to be stored in another variable, the original variable isn't modified and the new variable actually has the result of the search-and-replace.

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TP

I think I see what you're saying. Rather than doing the Search/Replace on the input variable itself - you'd like the action to output a totally separate variable, leaving the original value un-changed?

That probably wouldn't be too hard to add to Tasker. However at the moment, you can do it by making a copy of the main variable before you do the Search/Replace, and then specifying the copy as the input. 

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RR

The replacement is done in the original variable. For instance, this replaces the word dog with the word cat.

        Test (68)
        
    A1: Variable Set 
        Name: %string 
        To: There is a dog in the house 
        Recurse Variables: Off 
        Do Maths: Off 
        Append: Off 
        
    A2: Variable Search Replace 
        Variable: %string 
        Search: dog 
        Ignore Case: Off 
        Multi-Line: Off 
        One Match Only: Off 
        Replace Matches: On 
        Replace With: cat 
        
    A3: Flash 
        Text: %string 
        Long: On

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NY

I'm seeing an option "Store Matches In" but not an option to store the result of the search and replace. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what that option actually does?

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RR

The Variable Search Replace action already has this capability.

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