Mark Payne created NIFI-911:
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             Summary: ReplaceText, with default configuration, will cause the 
replacement to be added twice
                 Key: NIFI-911
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-911
             Project: Apache NiFi
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Extensions
            Reporter: Mark Payne
             Fix For: 0.3.0


Currently, the default value for the Regular Expression property is (.*) which 
is intended to match any text. However, due to the way that the regular 
expression is interpreted, it first matches the entire content of the FlowFile 
and then again matches 0 characters at the end of the content (because .* will 
match 0 or more characters of any character).

This results in the replacement value being added to the FlowFile twice. For 
example, if the replacement value is "Hello World", the output FlowFile will 
contain the text "Hello WorldHello World".

We should instead change the regex pattern to (^.*$) to in order to ensure that 
we do not duplicate the output



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