Replacing Text using Regular Expression in Visual Studio

Question

I have the following text in Visual Studio Design View:

<% =Utility.CreateLabel("lblHeader_LP","Online Loan Application") %>

and I need to convert that text into the following:

<asp:Label ID="lblHeader_LP" Text="Online Loan Application" runat="server"/>

I am not really sure how to accomplish that but thinking the following:

Find: <% =Utility.CreateLabel("(*.)","(*.)" &>

Replace: <asp:Label ID="$1" Text="$2" runat="server" />

Any idea?

a'r · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-22 18:01:59Z

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Try using this for your find:

<% =Utility\.CreateLabel\("([^"]*)","([^"]*)"\) %>

answered Nov 22, 2011 at 18:01

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Tarik Over a year ago

Here is the answer. Thanks. Helped me save too much time.

Tarik Over a year ago

Thanks for this answer but didn't work for the Replace case. It finds the text but when coming to replacing, it didn't work so I used what Microsoft says mentioned in my answer.

Tarik · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-23 01:20:50Z

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This is what worked for me, I think Visual Studio accepts different kind of Regular Expression :

Find: \<% =Utility\.CreateLabel${:q},(:b)*{:q}$ %\>

Replace: <asp:Label ID=\1 Text=\2 runat="server" />

Where {:q} means quoted-text for back-reference and (:b) means space or tab character.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2k3te2cs(VS.80).aspx

edited Nov 23, 2011 at 1:20

answered Nov 22, 2011 at 18:41

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Code Jockey Over a year ago

yes - leave it to Microsoft to create (or buy and continue to use) a regular expression language unlike any other in their flagship IDE, which is designed to compile multiple languages which all use a regular expression syntax completely different from the IDE itself but identical to each other... grumble

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