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adoosii

Reputation: 13

Global Find and Replace in Visual Studio With Regular Expressions

In My Project, I want to add CssClass to All asp:Buttons which don't have the CssClass attribute.How can I use regular expressions to search and replace All?

search and replace this

<asp:Button ID="buttonSearch" runat="server" Text="Search" OnClick="buttonSearch_Click" />

into the following

<asp:Button ID="buttonSearch" runat="server" Text="Search" OnClick="buttonSearch_Click"  CssClass="button-default" />

Upvotes: 0

Views: 899

Answers (4)

Thanaen
Thanaen

Reputation: 328

It seems that Visual Studio now supports Find and Replace with Regular Expressions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/using-regular-expressions-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2019#capture-groups-and-replacement-patterns

Microsoft says

Visual Studio uses .NET regular expressions to find and replace text.

Before using Regular Expressions in the Find and Replace interface, you just have to make sure to press the "Regular Expressions" button (the buttons contains a symbol like this: .*): The "Find and Replace" interface, with regular expressions enabled

Note: as shown in the picture, you can also press Alt + E to enable regular expressions in the Find and Replace interface!

You can find more informations about the regular expressions & the Find and Replace feature here

Upvotes: 0

Tim Pietzcker
Tim Pietzcker

Reputation: 336088

You can't do it with "regular" VS find/replace regexes because they don't support lookaround assertions.

You can do it using a special plugin, though. It's called Regular Expressions Margin and supports .NET style regexes:

Screenshot

Search for

<asp:Button\b(?![^<>]*\bCssClass)([^<>]*)/>

and replace all with

<asp:Button\1 CssClass="button-default" />

Upvotes: 0

adoosii
adoosii

Reputation: 13

ok, I resolve it by myself.

ctrl+shift+H

find what

{\<asp\:Button(:b+<:w>=:q(\n)*)*}{(:b)*/*\>}

replace with

\1 CssClass="button-default" \2

Upvotes: 1

Vikram
Vikram

Reputation: 8333

search for <asp:Button and replace it with <asp:Button CssClass="button-default" in whole of your project.

Upvotes: 0

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