# Cloze type to basic type?

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cloze-type-to-basic-type/23305 "2022-09-21T18:46:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/cloze-type-to-basic-type/23305/2 "2022-09-22T06:37:59Z")

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1. File\>Create Backup
2. Select all the cards
3. Notes\>Find & Replace, all fields + regular expression, find:

```auto
(.*)\{\{c1::(.*)\}\}

```

replace with

```auto
$1|$2

```

1. Select all the cards, and Notes\>Change Notetype. Change to the Basic notetype, and map the first field to both front and back, so you get two copies of it.
2. Find & replace, this time limit to the Front field. Find:

```auto
\|.*

```

Replace with nothing  
6. Again for the back field, this time find:

```auto
.*\|

```

and replace with nothing.

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