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amuu00
amuu00

Reputation: 71

What exactly is the purpose of File name patterns when refactoring in Eclipse?

This option shows up in several different places such as when renaming a package or a class in Eclipse. Pretty sure it's something fairly simple but I was curious to know how it works.

This is Eclipse's documentation on rename https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2FgettingStarted%2Fqs-35c.htm ...but couldn't find what I was looking for.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111218

The pattern specifies what non-Java files are searched for the name.

For example you might specify *.xml to look for the name in all XML files.

One use for this is in plug-in development where you might just want to search plugin.xml for the name. Or *.e4xmi to look for the name in e4 application fragments.

Upvotes: 1

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