I'm wondering, is there a way that you can do a search for all words that have the word "pPath" in them and replace them with "mutablePath" in Xcode. For instance, there are certain instances where there could be pPath_0 or pPath_50, I just want to replace them all with "mutablePath". Is there a regular expression I can use for this if it's possible?
EDIT #1: I mean to actually replace the whole word pPath_50 or (any word that has pPath in it) with mutablePath. Doing a simple find and replace will only replace the word "pPath" with "mutablePath".
EDIT #2: I found out that if you click the magnifying glass next to the search bar, then click "Show Find Options", you can select "Regular Expression" from a pull down menu and use it to do a search for a regular expression. I'm assuming that the regular expression language used for this is common to other things, does anyone know what the regular expression is to search for any word that has pPath at the beginning of it?
I found that you actually can use regular expressions on find and replace in Xcode 4.3. Simply click on the magnifying glass next to the search box (or the area where you enter in the text to search). Select "Show Find Options", then under "Style" choose "Regular Expression". I'm not too familiar with regular expressions, but I believe it uses syntax that is similar to a lot of other modules that implement them. For instance, I was able to solve my problem using "pPath_\w*".
Yes - Go to Search Navigator (left pane) - Click on the drop down for 'Find' and you will see replace.
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There is a problem with the formatting of certain .docx files. I click to show the hidden formatting marks. There are degree symbols ("non-breaking spaces") in between many of the words, instead of a regular space.
To solve the problem: I copy and paste the degree symbol, and then I use the "find and replace" function to replace the degree symbols with a regular space.
How do I prevent this problem from occurring in the first place?
Or, how can I automatically convert these symbols to a regular space.
Non-breaking spaces are used to keep words from breaking across lines.
As Cindy stated above, the simplest way to remove them manually is to record a macro and execute this from a Ribbon button or the Quick Access Toolbar.
According to this link (and this link it refers to), nonbreaking spaces are inserted automatically if your proofing language is set to French and you type certain characters. To prevent this from happening, you have to either use a different proofing language or disable the "Replace straight quotes with smart quotes" option. To do this, see below (and I'm quoting the previous link):
To change the proofing language, select the text and click Language on
the Review tab. In addition to choosing another language, it's a good
idea to uncheck the option to automatically detect the language.
To change the quotes replacement, click File > Options > Proofing >
AutoCorrect Options, choose the AutoFormat As You Type tab of the
dialog (not just AutoFormat), and uncheck the first option.
I am having a block of code in Eclipse IDE and I want to replace that with new block of code in the whole project, can any one help me out regarding this issue.
First consider to refactor the repeated code into a function and then you can easily find/replace the function name. It will save you a lot of work.
If its just one line of code, just click ctrl+H select the so it should search in your project, when eclipse finds all results right click on the search window and select "replace all".
If its more than one line of code, enable first regular expression search, so when you select the code and hit ctrl+H eclipse will convert your text to regex, then do the search and select replace all...
(in the search window, make sure to be in the "File Search" tab.)
In a branch of code I have changed all of the code from obj.varname to obj("varname") and when I compare the code I would like to ignore these differences since varname is the same.
I have a regular expression that I think I need but unfortunately can't get the comparison to be ignored using Beyond Compare from Scooter
^obj\("\w*"\)|obj\.\w*$
I am following this tutorial http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_unimportantv3
So my question: is this even possible with beyond compare? If yes, please share a solution including either instructions or post your screenshots.
Beyond Compare 3's Professional edition supports this through its Text Replacements feature. If you've already purchased a Standard edition license you need to revert to trial mode to test it: http://www.scootersoftware.com/suppo...?zz=kb_evalpro
Load your two files in the Text Compare.
Open the Session Settings dialog from the the Session menu, and on the Replacements tab click New to create a new replacement.
In the Text to find edit, use (\w+)\.(\w+)
In the Replace with edit, use $1("$2")
Check the Regular expression checkbox.
The alternative would be to mark any instance of obj.varname and obj("varname") as unimportant. The basic steps would be this:
Load your two files in the Text Compare.
Open the Session Settings dialog from the Session menu, and on the Importance tab click the Edit Grammar... button.
In the next dialog click the New... button below the top listbox.
Change the Element name field to something useful (say, "PropertyAccess").
Change the Category* to List.
In the Text in list* edit, add these two lines:
obj.varname
obj("varname")
Click OK to close the Grammar Item dialog and then click OK again to close the Text Format* grammar item.
Uncheck "PropertyAccess" (or whatever you named it) in the Grammar elements listbox in the Session Settings dialog, then click OK to close it.
This approach isn't as flexible or clean. In the steps above you're matching specific, hardcoded object and variable names, so obj.varname is unimportant but obj.othervar isn't, even if it's aligned against obj("othervar"). If text on both sides is unimportant the difference will be unimportant; if one side is important it will be an important difference. So, with the above steps, obj.varname and obj("varname") will be unimportant everywhere, but it will work correctly since they'll either be matched to other cases that also match those definitions (and thus unimportant) or will be matched to something else that doesn't match that definition, which will be important and will make the difference important.
You can use regular expressions to match more general text categories, but you probably don't want to. For example, if you wanted to match all text that followed that pattern you could use these two lines instead:
\w+\.\w+
\w+\("\w+"\)
And then check the Regular expressions checkbox in the Grammar Item dialog so they're matched that way.
The upside/downside to that is that any text that matches those patterns is then unimportant. abc.newvar vs. def.varname would be considered an unimportant difference because both sides match the unimportant definition. That's good for things like comments or whitespace changes, but probably isn't what you want to do here.
I use the eclipse File Search option very much to search all files in my workspace for a certain content. But how do I specify that it should only return hits from a fixed search criteria? As an example I would like to find all occurrences of the string:
com.mystuff.data
but I also get all the hits for:
com.mystuff.data.ui
How do I make a "this-string-only-search" when searching files in my workspace??
If I understand you correctly, Eclipse don't provide option to search exact word.
You can use regular expression for it.
You can use \bSearchKeyword\b to find exact word.
I suggest that you use regular expressions.
Here are the steps:
Select the checkbox "Regular expression" which is located beside the "Containing text" field.
In the "Containing text" field write: com.mystuff.data\D\W
Note that:
\D means "no digit"
\W means "no alphanumeric"
In case you would like to refine the regular expression, click Ctrl-SPACE, in order to get the regular expression assistance.
Hope this helps.
Best regards
Maybe slightly off-topic but this got me tripped and brought me here - maybe useful for somebody else:
In the Eclipse standard Find/Replace dialogue the section 'Options' (that includes the option 'Whole Word') may be hidden if the Find/Replace dialogue window was previously resized to a smaller size, without any clue to its presence. Resizing it larger brings back the options section. See: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355206
and attached shots.
Eclipse standard Find/Replace dialogue search for Whole Word regards several characters (including period) besides a space as a word delimiter, so you indeed cannot distinguish between "com.mystuff.data" and "com.mystuff.data.ui"
E.g. search 'Stack' with option 'Whole Word' checked:
will match:
Stack
Stack overflow
Stack.overflow
Stack,overflow
Stack[overflow]
Stack(overflow)
Stack-overflow
Stack/overflow
will not match:
Stackoverflow
Stack2overflow
Stack_overflow
Simplest way is to add space in the start and end of your search term.
Try SHFT+ CTRL+R, then on right upper angle select Working Set, then name and specify your resources.
Create Work Set as above, then CTRL+H check checkbox All occurency, then select your Work Set. Or maybe you can create work set in CTRL+H.
I would like to search multiple files via eclipse for the following 2 lines:
#Length(max = L_255)
private String description;
and replace them with these two:
#Length(max = L_255, message="{validator.description.len}")
private String description;
Another tip on how to get the regex for a selected block.
Open one of the files that contains the multiple lines (multiline) to search or replace.
Click Ctrl+F and select "Regular expression". Close the Find/Replace window.
Select the block you need and click again Ctrl+F to open the Find/Replace window.
Now in the Find text box you have the regular expression that exactly matches your selection block.
(I discovered this, only after creating manually a regexp for very long block :)
Search are multi-line by default in Eclipse when you are using regex:
(\#Length\(max = L_255)\)([\r\n\s]+private)
I would like to add "private String description;"
(\#Length\(max = L_255)\)([\r\n\s]+private\s+?String\s+description\s*?;)
replaced by:
\1, message="{validator.description.len}")\2
It works perfectly in a File Search triggered by a CTRL-H.
As mentioned in Tika's answer, you can directly copy the two lines selected in the "Containing Text" field: those lines will be converted as a regexp for you by Eclipse.
CTRL+H does take two lines if you use regexp (and you don't have to write the regexp by yourself, eclipse does that for you).
Select your lines.
Click CTRL+H. The search dialog opens up.
If "Regular expression" is already checked, eclipse will have converted the two lines you search for into regexp for you, click Search.
If "Regular expression" if not already checked", check it and click Cancel (eclipse remembers your choice).
Select your lines again.
Click CTRL+H. The search dialog opens up. This time "Regular expression" is already selected. eclipse will have converted the two lines you search for into regexp for you, click Search.
A quick tip for including multiple lines as part of a manually constructed regular expression:
Where you would normally use .* to match any character zero or more times, instead consider using something like (?:.|\r?\n)*. Or put an extra ? at the end to make it non-greedy.
Explanation: . doesn't match new lines so need to do an "either-or": The parentheses match either the . before the pipe or the new line after it. The ? after \r makes the carriage return before the line feed optional to allow Windows or Unix new lines. The ?: excludes the whole thing as a capturing group (which helps to avoid a stack overflow).
Click Ctrl + F and select "Regular Expression" and then search the lines. In case to perform the same on multiple files, click Ctrl + H, click on 'File Search' and perform the same.
Select the folder that contains all your files and press Ctrl+H.