Select Case<\/span> etime<\/p>\n Case<\/span> EnumECEnt.EnmDisplayMessageType<\/span>.Alert<\/p>\n Replace with:<\/strong><\/p>\n Select Case<\/span> enmtime<\/p>\n Case EnumECEnt.EnmDisplayMessageType<\/span>.Warning<\/p>\n We have this common piece of code in lots of classes. I now need to change this. I will open the Find and Replace window and use its Regular Expression option. Below is the screenshot:<\/p>\n Enter the relevant text in Find what and Replace with Text boxes as shown above.<\/p>\n We can then search and replace as usually.<\/p>\n How does this work?<\/strong><\/p>\n If you notice the text in Find what: box, the lines that we are searching for starts with a \u2018\\\u2019<\/p>\n \\<\/strong><\/tt>\u00a0<\/strong>(backslash)<\/strong>\u00a0in Regex means match all characters after this. It even suppresses special Regex special characters like – [\\^$.|?*+(){}<\/strong><\/p>\n Since we are looking for multi line texts we need to look for Line breaks. This is done by:<\/p>\n \u201c\\n<\/strong>\u201d – Match a new line character<\/p>\n So wasn’t this really simple? By using just a couple of Regex keywords we were able to do a complicated Find and Replace which could have required tedious manual effort.<\/p>\n I can be reached at hsoni@netpurists.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I came across a fresher recently recruited in my company doing a boring and repetitive work of Find and Replace, doing it manually. He was searching for a particular keyword in the code and replacing a couple of line … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/netpurists.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Find-and-Replace2.png\")
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