Regex to find and replace in xcode...?

Question

I have a java file which I got from android, this has some hard coded values in it. Basically we have a file which creates an object of type country and adds it to a list.

I wish to attain the same functionality but I am not sure of the reg-ex required to find and replace the file contents. Basically this is how one of the lines in it looks like...

countries.add(new Country("af", "Afghanistan", 93));

And this is what I wan't it to look like

[countries addObject:[[Country alloc] initWithArray:@[@"af",@"Afghanistan",@"93"]];

Do you think regex can be used for such extensive case..? Or will I have to manually do this for every entry..?

Ankit Srivastava · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-30 19:20:14Z

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You can do a literal search and capture groups like this and replace them.

Regex: countries\.add$new Country\("([a-z]+)", "(.*)", (\d+)$\);

Replacement to do: [countries addObject:[[Country alloc] initWithArray:@[@"$1",@"$2",@"$3"]];

Regex101 Demo

edited Mar 30, 2016 at 19:20

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Ankit Srivastava Over a year ago

but there is an issue here, xcode doesn't seem to be recognising groups, instead it adds @"1",@"2",@"3"

Ankit Srivastava Over a year ago

Changed it to work on xcode and include all characters.

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