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Fixes #2108.

Cause

edit.replace decides whether a cell matches with the wildcard matcher (matches, which reads *, ? and ~ when the pattern holds * or ?), then rewrote the cell with str::replace / replace_ci, which look for the pattern text literally. A cell like 10.0.0.1, fe80::1 matched ,*, was counted in replaced, and kept its text.

Fix

crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs: when the pattern holds * or ? (the same test matches uses), Replace now rewrites each match, left to right and without overlaps. A * takes as few characters as it can, except a trailing *, which takes the rest of the text: the rules @iluebbe measured in Excel 365 in #1455. ~ escapes work as in Find (wildcard and the new code share the tokenizer). Case-insensitive matching folds one char to one char, as criteria.rs does since f8983e2, so match positions stay those of the cell text. A cell is counted only when a match was replaced.

When a start fails after reaching a *, the scan stops: what follows the star can't be placed from any later start either. Without that, a 32,767-character cell with no match took ~0.4 s (a*b over aaa…); with it, under 1 ms (release build, M1 Pro).

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Wildcard replacement now replaces matched text for patterns containing * or ?, rather than treating those characters literally.
    • Matches are processed left to right without overlap. * matches the shortest possible text, while a trailing * matches the remainder.
    • Escaped wildcard characters and case-insensitive matches are handled more consistently. Patterns with no matches are skipped.
  • Chores

    • Added contributor information for Luigi Pinna.

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Wildcard replacement now finds and replaces matching text in cells. The change also adds Luigi Pinna to the contributor records.

Changes: Wildcard replacement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wildcard matching and replacement
crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs
Wildcard replacement tokenizes escaped characters and replaces non-overlapping matches. A trailing * consumes the remaining text. Case handling preserves match positions, and cells without a match are skipped. Tests cover replacement and scanning behavior.

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Contributor record
contributors/people.toml
Adds Luigi Pinna’s real name and enables GitHub-name synchronization.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: echelon

Merge Risk: Low · up to ac00c

Replacement can still skip matches for two uncommon patterns. The change is mergeable with owner awareness of those edge cases.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5fb58

The changes reuse existing workbook-edit and contributor-publication controls. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but consent verification for the new contributor entry remains unconfirmed.

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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The affected resources are cells within the existing replacement command's sheet or workbook scope and contributor names emitted into static credits. The inspected changes do not add a service, credential, or network destination.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Unauthorized publication of the new contributor's name is not established. The existing verification gate is unchanged, and the available generated contributor data has no matching row. Whether a later refresh accepts the entry with valid consent remains unresolved; the deferred candidate is not a verified vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Contributor publication continues to trust the externally produced people_entry flag. The new record does not bypass the local flag check, but the verifier implementation and authoritative self-authorship or consent evidence were unavailable, limiting assessment of that upstream control.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Replacement retains the existing failure-containment lifecycle: edits occur on a temporary workbook, protection and array checks precede publication, closure failures discard local changes, successful execution records history, and panic recovery and undo/redo restore workbook snapshots. No new partial-publication path was identified in the changed flow.
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Out of Scope Changes check Warning contributors/people.toml adds the unrelated [people.luigiPinna] contributor entry. This change does not support the [#2108] wildcard replacement fix. Remove the [people.luigiPinna] entry from this pull request, or move the contributor update to a separate pull request.
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title names the main change: Find and Replace now replaces the text that a wildcard pattern matches, instead of leaving cells unchanged. The changeset matches this. edit.rs adds left-to-right wild…
Linked Issues check Passed The change satisfies [#2108]. edit.replace now rewrites text matched by wildcard patterns. The added test verifies 10.0.0.1, fe80::1 with ,* and an empty replacement produces 10.0.0.1. The tes…
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The title names the main change: Find and Replace now replaces the text that a wildcard pattern matches, instead of leaving cells unchanged. The changeset matches this. edit.rs adds left-to-right wildcard matching with * and ? support, and in replace non-whole-cell patterns with wildcards now replace the matched text. The linked issue #2108 is also cited in the title. The title is a single 11-word sentence and does not include a file list, emoji, or vague terms. The PR number in the title (#2108) refers to the issue; the objectives mention PR #2127, so the number is a minor mismatch and does not affect the title's accuracy.

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The change satisfies [#2108]. edit.replace now rewrites text matched by wildcard patterns. The added test verifies 10.0.0.1, fe80::1 with ,* and an empty replacement produces 10.0.0.1. The test also verifies the replacement count and wildcard matching behavior.

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Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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luigiPinna force-pushed the fix/wildcard-replace-2108 branch from cdd8e88 to a8de464 Compare October 21, 2026 14:18
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luigiPinna force-pushed the fix/wildcard-replace-2108 branch from a8de464 to 5fb58db Compare October 22, 2026 05:40

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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:
- Around line 1680-1682: Update the wildcard replacement flow around
replace_wildcard so the earlier matches prefilter does not reject non-whole-cell
patterns using a modified pattern; let replace_wildcard determine whether what
matches, while preserving the existing replacement behavior for matching cells.
- Around line 1570-1573: Update replace_wildcard’s case-insensitive comparison
to use lowercase behavior compatible with matches, including context-sensitive
Unicode casing, while preserving a mapping from folded characters back to
original text positions for replacements.

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Comment on lines +1570 to +1573
let fold = |c: char| if case { c } else { c.to_lowercase().next().unwrap_or(c) };
let t: Vec<char> = text.chars().collect();
let folded: Vec<char> = t.iter().map(|&c| fold(c)).collect();
let mut p: Vec<(char, bool)> = wildcard_tokens(what).into_iter().map(|(c, esc)| (fold(c), esc)).collect();

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use matching-compatible lowercase handling for replacement.

If a cell contains "ΟΣ" and what is "*ς" with matchCase=false, matches lowercases the whole text to "ος" and accepts the cell. Here, per-character lowercasing converts Σ to σ, so replace_wildcard finds no match and leaves the cell unchanged. Keep replacement positions tied to original characters, but make its case comparison agree with matches. Rust documents this difference between str::to_lowercase and char::to_lowercase. (doc.rust-lang.org)

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs around lines 1570 - 1573:
Update replace_wildcard’s case-insensitive comparison to use lowercase behavior
compatible with matches, including context-sensitive Unicode casing, while
preserving a mapping from folded characters back to original text positions for
replacements.

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Comment on lines +1680 to +1682
} else if what.contains(['*', '?']) {
let Some(new) = replace_wildcard(&text, &what, &with, case) else { continue };
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not prefilter wildcard replacement with a modified pattern.

If what is "a*~" and the cell contains "abc", wildcard_tokens drops the trailing ~, so replacement would match "a*". The earlier matches call instead appends * to make "*a*~*". The ~ escapes that appended star, so matches rejects the cell before this branch runs. Let replace_wildcard determine whether a non-whole-cell wildcard pattern matches.

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs around lines 1680 - 1682:
Update the wildcard replacement flow around replace_wildcard so the earlier
matches prefilter does not reject non-whole-cell patterns using a modified
pattern; let replace_wildcard determine whether what matches, while preserving
the existing replacement behavior for matching cells.

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Merged main at 72c1d57d (no force-push). contributors/people.toml was the only conflict: main's new tyrel and helenkwok entries, then mine. crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs merges on its own and the diff against main is unchanged.

Local verification on ac00c724, macOS arm64, rustc 1.99.0: cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy -p gridcraft-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test -p gridcraft-engine (540 passed), cargo test -p gridcraft-ui-egui --lib credits. Hosted CI on this PR is still waiting for approval.

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[Bug Report] Replace does nothing when trying to replace ",*" with nothing

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