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Answer 1

A:

Replace

document\.all\['(.*?)'\]

by

document.getElementById('$1')

The parentheses are used to identify a group. The $1 is used to print the value of the first group. The backslashes are used to escape special characters in regex. For the remnant it's pretty trivial.

Hope this helps.

BalusC 2009-12-25 05:08:48

Don't forget to escape the `.` in `document.all`.

Asaph 2009-12-25 05:11:41

I see. Updated it.

BalusC 2009-12-25 05:12:42

Thanks for the help, but this doesn't work in a text editor or Visual Studio context (just tried both)

Traveling Tech Guy 2009-12-25 05:18:15

Well, it apparently uses a different regex syntax. The above are perl-compatible.

BalusC 2009-12-25 05:21:46

there is no nongreedy matches in notepad++ *? - doesn't work

x2 2009-12-25 05:24:11

Answer 2

+1 A:

Search for:

document\.all\['([^']+)'\]

Replace with:

document.getElementById('\1')

Asaph 2009-12-25 05:10:12

Best answer cause of [^']

x2 2009-12-25 05:17:45

@x2: so you aren't familiar with the *non-greedy* operator `.*?` as in my example?

BalusC 2009-12-25 05:24:25

@BalusC: it's ok for perl, but not for built-in search in notepad++(don't know about vs)

x2 2009-12-25 05:30:45

Answer 3

+1 A:

For notepad++:

search:

document\.all\[\'(.*)\'\]

replace with:

document.getElementById('\1')

x2 2009-12-25 05:11:16

Thanks a lot! Just saved me a heap of search-replace-test-aw-sh!t operations :)

Traveling Tech Guy 2009-12-25 05:23:17

Be careful with this one. The `.*` is greedy and may extend the match beyond where you want it to. It will swallow everything up until the last instance of `']`.

Asaph 2009-12-25 05:33:48

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