Add support for regex search patterns

[BrysonZimmerman]

Regular expressions are a very useful tool for search/replace purposes and would fit well with this plugin.

I believe a regex checkbox would be sufficient to specify whether or not a regex is being used. That being said, when I processed the input of the search field as a regex by changing line 292 of /inc/Database/Replace.php to $data = preg_replace( $from, $to, $data ); I ended up matching every entry of every table selected, despite the same regex working when run as a function in the theme's functions.php file.

[bueltge]

Thanks a lot for usage of the plugin and your feature request.
Currently we see this feature not as relevant for this plugin. Regex are more for power-users, not defaults there change data. So that this user group have the change to use standard mysql tools, cli etc.
Maybe much later, but actually we have not resources to implement this.

[Dmole]

https://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-regex/