Find & replace doesn't seem to be working

Need help Database
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Hi, I’m trying to replace automatically “->” by “→” in my app.
So I’m using a database trigger event that fires each time the content is modified and checks if the content has the “->” characters and replaces it.
But for some reason, it doesn’t seem to work.
Any idea why?

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Thanks!

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Try it without the “Only when” condition on it and see if it works. Maybe the contains operator isn’t finding the “->” if it is part of a word or something…

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@tylerboodman good point. I tried without the condition and it’s still not working…

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Hmm… :thinking:

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Is the change in your database actually being made for it to trigger? Like clicking out of the input box with autobinding enabled

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Also you could try a “When condition is true” (everytime) event on your page, and just have it monitor the thing with the same condition, it might be faster

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Actually, I’ve had this issue as well yesterday with a backend workflow.

I was trying to :find&replace a few things but didn’t work as well.

I didn’t investigate that much at the time, but it may be a bug ?

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@tylerboodman you gave me the idea to actually go look in the database at what was happening. And the :v: funny :v: thing is that my “->” characters were actually saved as something entirely different. I’m using the light RTE plugin w/ autobinding and I guess it changes the characters…
Anyways, I’m now looking for -> and it does work!
So thanks!

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