Ok you have to check the box "regular expression" and search '\.', otherwise it selects all the dots.
Thanks,
Franck
> From: damien.cassou@gmail.com
> To: pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:42:00 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Find & replace a dot
>
>
> Franck Warlouzet <franck.warlouzet@hotmail.fr> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For some reason I had to replace a dot with another character, but in the Find & Replace window, searching a dot is actually a bad idea (especially in order to replace it) because for the window all the characters are dots. It selects and replaces the whole text.
>
> isn't that related to regular expressions? Read the web about regular
> expressions.
>
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