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Andrew Atkinson
Andrew Atkinson

Reputation: 4251

PHPStorm Regex Replace with back calls

I want to use PHPStorm to find and replace all instances of:

[A-z]['][s]

Example:

Andy's or David's

to:

Andy\'s or David\'s

I have the regex as above, but I want to know how to use the found character in the regex in the replace.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 348

Answers (2)

Brian Stephens
Brian Stephens

Reputation: 5271

There are several problems with the regex the way you have it: [A-z]['][s]

You can't use a shortcut [A-z] to get a range of all upper and lower. You need to use [A-Za-z]. You also don't need the apostrophe and s in brackets:

[A-Za-z]'s

Then, to replace with a matched group, use $ groups:

([A-Za-z])'s, replacing with $01\\\\'s

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Atkinson
Andrew Atkinson

Reputation: 4251

The $ character is used to access the array of regex groups.

The regex groups can be defined with brackets.

This works:

Find: ([A-z/0-9])['][s]

Replace: $01\\\\'s

(To print one slash, 4 are needed.)

Upvotes: 0

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