Add comments to code with regex in visual studio

Question

I want to use regex to do two things:

1.Comment all the strings that call the method .EnterText:

myField1.EnterText( a, 1000 );
myField2.EnterText( b, 3000 );

I have lots of those lines. How can I use regex to achieve something like this in Visual Studio:

//myField1.EnterText( a, 1000 );
//myField2.EnterText( b, 3000 );

2.After commenting those lines I want to copy them and change the calls in the following way:

myField1.Value = a;

So eventually I want to have something like this:

//myField1.EnterText( a, 1000 );
myField1.Value = a;
//myField2.EnterText( b, 3000 );
myField2.Value = b;

stema · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21 07:05:42Z

1

Try this

Find what:

{{.*\.}EnterText\({[^,]+}.*}

Replace with

//\1\n\2Value = \3

In Visual Studio you have to use {} to create a capturing group, means: you can reuse the matched parts inside those brackets using backreferences. \1 refers to the first opening bracket, \2 to the second, ...

[^,]+ is a negated character class that matches at least on character that is not a comma after the bracket of the method.

answered Mar 21, 2012 at 7:05

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Ilya Suzdalnitski Over a year ago

Thanks a lot! That was the trick to use curly brackets instead of normal brackets in Visual Studio!

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