Find / Replace

Category: Text

Status: Registered and callable in the CyberChef 11.3.0 compatibility inventory.

Input / output: string → string

Background: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

What it does

Replaces all occurrences of the first string with the second. Includes support for regular expressions (regex), simple strings and extended strings (which support n, r, t, b, f and escaped hex bytes using x notation, e.g. x00 for a null byte).

Note

Status here means the operation name is implemented and callable. It does not by itself promise byte-for-byte parity for every upstream option. See Compatibility and current status for the verified scope and known boundaries.

Arguments and options

Arguments are positional. Keep their order when using bake() or Pipeline.then().

Index	Name	UI type	PyChef default	Accepted values / format
`0`	Find	`toggleString`	`{'string': '', 'option': 'Regex'}`	`''`
`1`	Replace	`binaryString`	`''`	`''`
`2`	Global match	`boolean`	`True`	`True` or `False`
`3`	Case insensitive	`boolean`	`False`	`True` or `False`
`4`	Multiline matching	`boolean`	`True`	`True` or `False`
`5`	Dot matches all	`boolean`	`False`	`True` or `False`

Recipe template

Important

This is a call template built from the documented defaults. Replace placeholder values such as empty keys, paths, patterns, or lookup data before running it.

from pychef import bake

input_value = "example"
args = [{'string': '', 'option': 'Regex'}, '', True, False, True, False]
result = bake(input_value, [{"op": 'Find / Replace', "args": args}])
print(result)

Pipeline example

from pychef import Pipeline

args = [{'string': '', 'option': 'Regex'}, '', True, False, True, False]
transform = Pipeline().then('Find / Replace', *args)
result = transform("example")

Dedicated operation module

The registered entry point lives in pychef.operations.by_operation.find_replace. Direct calls receive the input value and a positional argument tuple:

from pychef.operations.by_operation.find_replace import run

result = run("example", tuple([{'string': '', 'option': 'Regex'}, '', True, False, True, False]))

pychef.operations.by_operation.find_replace.run(value, args)

Run this operation using its shared internal implementation.

Parameters:

value (str | bytes)
args (Sequence[Any])

Return type:

str | bytes