Batch edit/replace?

[siren synapse]

My new phone's keyboard doesn't have a special character I always used in my cards. So I replaced it with something else. I don't want to switch keyboards; I like this one. 
Is there a way to go back and batch edit every instance of this symbol to the new one in a deck?

Thanks :)

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I found the find/replace function, but utterly baffled as to how it works. 

[Mike Hardy]

This is one of those cases where you should consider AnkiDroid a companion app to Anki Desktop

sync up to AnkiWeb, down to Anki Desktop, export to csv, batch edit using powerful tools, import the notes again to update them, sync up to Web down to Droid, done

That's how I'd do a job like this anyway

Only other way would be to go into the sqlite database directly and execute a semi-complicated query, the database structure is on the AnkiDroid Wiki in github but that will be far from supported - it can work but you'll need to make it work yourself if you do it

Take a good backup either way :-), good luck -

-Mike

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What does "powerful tools" mean? Is that the name of an actual piece of software? Why does anki claim to have a find/replace function if it doesn't even do anything?

[Mike Hardy]

Powerful tools like a full featured desktop spreadsheet program, not some thing on a mobile phone

Not sure what Anki claims, we are a separate group. What does Ankidroid claim? That's all we can be responsible for here. I don't believe we claim find/replace?

-Mike
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Thanks for the help. I just realized the keyboard on my old phone was gboard and my sammy has its own, so I can indeed switch happily. Thought gboard had just changed its special keys. Much easier than mucking with all that, but hope that helps someone someday. :)