Regular expression search in files, in the Visual Studio editor

Question

I was trying to search for ".IsSet", but not "DocumentState.IsSet", in VS 2008 using regular expression search. How do I compose the regular expression?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try

(?!<DocumentState)\.IsSet

The ?!< is a "negative lookbehind".

Answer 2

Try this :

^\.IsSet

^ : means beginning of the string.

Answer 3

~(DocumentState)\.IsSet

will match all .IsSet instances that do not follow DocumentState. To match exactly .IsSet but not .IsSetFoo, you can either use

~(DocumentState)\.IsSet>

or check the Match whole word option.

See Regular Expressions (Visual Studio) for a list of regular expression tokens supported in the Visual Studio search.

Answer 4

I don't know if you can with the VS Search, but you can

1. Replace DocumentState.IsSet by a token (like "DOCSTATE")
2. Replace all .IsSert
3. Replace your token "DOCSTATE" with DocumentState.IsSet