Here is a quick tip for when you want to replace some text in your code.

Say that you have many HTML attributes like name="email" and you want to replace them with name="<?= $field['email']['name']; ?>". Then you must search for name="(\w+?)" and replace with name="<?= \$field['\1']['name'] ?>". Note that you need to escape the $ with a backslash for Eclipse to do its work. If you omit it, Eclipse will simply not work and not complain.

2 Responses to “How to use RegExp replace in Eclipse”

1. Samundra Shrestha says:

   2010-07-10 at 07:14:58

   I found still very short regular expression.
   
   href=”(.*?)”
   
   This does the same as done by
   
   href=”http:\/\//?(\w+.)+”
   
2. Samundra Shrestha says:

   2010-07-10 at 06:44:45

   While I wanted to capture some hyperlinks I found this regular expression useful, hope this help some people who are trying to capture hyperlinks in search.

   Regular Expression is :
   
   href=”http:\/\//?(\w+.)+”
   

   I am sure that could have been done in easy way, but that was all I knew.

   with best regards,
   Samundra