Visual Studio Find & Replace Question??

[Crash]

VS2005

In the find/replace dialog if I make a regex like this I can find all
of the "New" statements that instantiate a class with "System" in the
name:

<New>.*<Syste m>

But how - in the VS find/replace dialog - can I negate the "System"
portion of the search? How do I say: find all lines with "New" that
do NOT have the word "System" after "New"??

Any help would be appreciated...

[Mythran]

Re: Visual Studio Find &amp; Replace Question??



"Crash" <sourcenexus@sa n.rr.comwrote in message
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VS2005
>
In the find/replace dialog if I make a regex like this I can find all
of the "New" statements that instantiate a class with "System" in the
name:
>
<New>.*<Syste m>
>
But how - in the VS find/replace dialog - can I negate the "System"
portion of the search? How do I say: find all lines with "New" that
do NOT have the word "System" after "New"??
>
Any help would be appreciated...

Try the following:

<New>:b+<~(Syst em).*>

I replaced your .* between Newand <System so it only matches whitespace
(tabs and/or spaces) in between.....cha nge it back if that's not what you
want :)

HTH,
Mythran

[Mr. Arnold]

Re: Visual Studio Find &amp; Replace Question??


"Crash" <sourcenexus@sa n.rr.comwrote in message
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>
VS2005
>
In the find/replace dialog if I make a regex like this I can find all
of the "New" statements that instantiate a class with "System" in the
name:
>
<New>.*<Syste m>
>
But how - in the VS find/replace dialog - can I negate the "System"
portion of the search? How do I say: find all lines with "New" that
do NOT have the word "System" after "New"??
>
Any help would be appreciated...

You can write a solution that does this as an add in to the VS IDE. When you
publish it, let me know.

It had better work. <smile>

[Mythran]

Re: Visual Studio Find &amp; Replace Question??



"Mythran" <Mythran@commun ity.nospamwrote in message
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"Crash" <sourcenexus@sa n.rr.comwrote in message
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>VS2005
>>
>In the find/replace dialog if I make a regex like this I can find all
>of the "New" statements that instantiate a class with "System" in the
>name:
>>
><New>.*<System >
>>
>But how - in the VS find/replace dialog - can I negate the "System"
>portion of the search? How do I say: find all lines with "New" that
>do NOT have the word "System" after "New"??
>>
>Any help would be appreciated...

>
Try the following:
>
<New>:b+<~(Syst em).*>
>
I replaced your .* between Newand <System so it only matches whitespace
(tabs and/or spaces) in between.....cha nge it back if that's not what you
want :)
>
HTH,
Mythran
>
>

You can also replace the (System).* with (System).@ to get only the word
portion and not the entire string (IE:

Dim I As New IO.Stream

The first post I made would capture "New IO.Stream" while the new way I
posted would capture "New IO"

HTH,
Mythran