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Replace gets hung up if replacing string with a string which contains the original string
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Description

How many times were you able to reproduce it?

Every

Steps to reproduce

  1. Load enwiki > Barack Obama > Early life and career
  2. Tap edit pencil
  3. Tap to left of the Obama was born on... sentence
  4. Tap find/replace
  5. Search for Obama
  6. Replace with Xobama one at a time

Expected results

As you tap the replace icon to do each replacement, the next Obama string is replaced each time

Actual results

Only the 1st three Obama strings are replaced with Xobama

Screenshots (tap image for animation)

xobama.mov.gif (720×400 px, 3 MB)

Environments observed

App version:
6.2.1
OS versions:
11.4 (all?)
Device model:
iPhone 6 (all?)
Device language:
En (all?)

Affected articles?

  • enwiki > Barack Obama (all?)

Event Timeline

LGoto subscribed.

This task was closed as part of the iOS team backlog grooming.