How to convert list property values from links to plain text (in bulk)?

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What I’m trying to do

In my vault, I have a list-type property where all the values were initially entered as links (each pointing to a note).
I originally set it up this way so I could generate Dataview lists from those values. However, with the new Base plugin, that’s no longer necessary.
Now I’d like to convert all those linked values into plain text, without the [] format — and ideally do it in bulk, since my vault is quite large.
Does anyone know a method, script, or plugin that could help achieve this?
Thanks in advance!

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You can use Search and Replace with Regex.

Load your vault folder for example in VS Code, which allows folder wide search and replace.

Make a backup before in case something goes wrong.

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Could i replace “[[“ for ““ and ““]]”” for ““? Do u think that would it work properly?

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This will remove any occurrence of [[ or ]] within in your vault. You need to be more specific with you regex to only remove it within your property that you want to change.