Allow replace by empty string

[thiagoburgo]

Allow replace by empty string

[BennyBread]

I have exactly the same requirement.
Do you have an solution or workaround for this? Since your post is from 2018...

[neilsouth]

This is sort of related, but I would like to pad my replacement text with spaces, but these are seemingly stripped off !
this makes it impossible to replace lines in a .yaml file, as they need proper indentation.

I guess this could be an issue with VSTS tasks?