Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se> writes:

> On 2012-05-10 11:37, shirish wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am in the process of learning how to use emacs. I know about the
>> replace-regexp but I am unable to create a regular expression to do the
>> below.
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> public static final String SUCCESS //Successmesg
>> public static final String FAILURE  //failuremessage
>>
>> I need to replace that with
>>
>> public static final String SUCCESS = "SUCCESS";//Successmesg
>> public static final String FAILURE  = "FAILURE"; //failuremessage
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shirish.
>>
>>
>
> There are a lot of ways to do it.  One could be:
>
> String \([^ ]+\)
>
> and replace it with:
>
> String \1 = "\1"

This won't do very well.

Try:

SUCCESS\|FAILURE => \& = "\&";

I may be wrong about those escapes, try it.

> I would personally use keyboard macros for it.

Yes, This would be fine, too.  And usually easier than regexps.

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