Add Option to Search and Replace to exclude Array data

[PhillipBrooks]

I've searched the Idea Exchange and found a couple of suggestions that are similar, but not exactly what I propose.

Specifically, I've spent considerable time tracking down what I would call a devlopement  environment bug.  The behavior of the 'bug' was addressed by the developer of the Search and Replace function in this post from the spring of 2007, describing how the algorithm works, and why it's not technically a bug.

He indicated that one 'solution' would be to add a flag to ignore arrays. I suggest that this be added.

My problem: The Search function will traverse into an image data cluster and then proceed to repeatedly search the image and mask arrays for a string that would not exist. The development performance hit was is significant and searching of a numeric array representing an image for 'words' in the context of find and replace is inconsistent.

[Darren]

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