From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regarding replacing regexp
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 23:10:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-0DD135.23104010052012@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.942.1336705240.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.942.1336705240.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Except that he forgot the semicolon, what's wrong about it?
>
> Try:
>
> SUCCESS\|FAILURE => \& = "\&";
>
> I may be wrong about those escapes, try it.
You're assuming those are the only names he has to replace. The first
responder assumed that they were just examples of a common pattern.
Plus, your version will replace them in other contexts, e.g. the program
is likely to contain something like:
if (...) return SUCCESS;
but you wouldn't want to change this with the replacement.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 9:37 Regarding replacing regexp shirish
2012-05-10 16:26 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-05-11 2:57 ` XeCycle
[not found] ` <mailman.942.1336705240.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-11 3:10 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2012-05-11 3:52 ` XeCycle
2012-05-12 10:39 ` shirish
2012-05-11 8:39 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-05-12 10:39 ` shirish
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