Subrules trigger regardless of parent's execution
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	Tom.Reding
	Nov 22 2020, 5:06 PM

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Applies to both of the 2 recent versions I tested: 6.1.0.1 SVN 12353 & 6.1.0.2 SVN 12426.

Reproduction:

Create a parent rule to find "find & replace dummy text", and replace with nothing, designed not to execute.
Create a child subrule to regex find ".+", and replace with nothing, which should not execute.
Run. The page is blanked when it should not have been.

This happens regardless of the parent rule's regex & case sensitivity.

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Tom.Reding created this task.Nov 22 2020, 5:06 PM

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Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.Feb 10 2023, 12:05 PM

For a parent find & replace rule, whether the subrule exectutes isn't controlled by the Find settings, it's controlled by the If/Contains If/Not contains settings.

I have updated F&R documentation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Find_and_replace#Advanced_settings

So if you want to find foo to replace with bar and then execute a subrule ONLY if that replacement took place, set the If/Contains to foo also.

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