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Deeptechtons
Deeptechtons

Reputation: 11125

Regular expression replace in Visual Studio

Using Visual Studio 2010 I would like to do a project level regular expression replace as below.

Find: #region {any string here}

Replace: #region - string from above -

I tried the below:

region\s'{[^]+}'

region '{[^]+}'

region {:q}

But the IDE complains about an incorrect pattern. How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 8203

Answers (2)

DaveyBoy
DaveyBoy

Reputation: 2915

Try:

Search: {\#region:b+}{.*}

Replace: \1 - \2 -

If you're specifically searching for the '{' and '}',

Search: {\#region:b+}\{{.*}\}

With quotes:

Search: {\#region:b+}{'.*'}

To remove quotes:

Search: {\#region:b+}'{.*}'

Upvotes: 5

buckley
buckley

Reputation: 14030

Ahhh, Visual Studio regexes... They shouldn't be called a regex since they diverge to much of what is "standard"

I fired up VS and after some trial and error this works:

search:

\#region \{{.*}\}

replace:

#region - \1 -

Upvotes: 8

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