Replace specified (rather than all) matches with global replacement text

[allysonsouza]

Summary

As pointed in this topic, would be great to have the option to specify which occurrence to be replaced, rather than all. In my case I'm trying to accomplish a very common scenario: replace all first images inserted in posts, a common issue when a project was previously using a theme that doesn't show the featured image in single.

Actual Behavior

There's no option to change the global matching. (Not an regex expert, I don't know if it's the right term)

Steps to reproduce

Try to match any regex agains first or one specif occurrence.

Environment

Firefox 84.0.2 (64-bits) Windows 10, WordPress 5.6, Search Regex 2.4.1

[johngodley]

This is something that will require you to create a regular expression that matches the first occurrence.

[allysonsouza]

That's right @johngodley, but from what I understood in the topic mentioned, and from what I remember I have tried, currently the plugin is not supporting that regular expression (not an expert and it's some time since I opened, so I cannot explain better, but the user neilrh1 explained in the topic).