PHP IDE :: NuSphere Forums :: View topic - [PhpED 4.6] Regular Expression replace with newlines

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:50 pm

Assume I have this piece of code:

Code:

<?php
$error = true;
$message = "An error occured."
?>

I used this in some old script of mine, and I used it a lot, so it would be wise to replace this with trigger_error("Blabla");
That's why I made this regex to apply it to all my php-files in some project:

Code:

\$error[\s]*=[\s]*true;[\s]*\n[\s]*\$message[\s]*=[\s]*["'](.*?)["'];

But it doesn't work! Although I'm pretty sure it's correct. When I try:

Code:

\$error[\s]*=[\s]*true;

and

Code:

\$message[\s]*=[\s]*["'](.*?)["'];

seperately they work fine. I also tried using [.]* and [\s]*\r[\s]* and lots of other variants instead of [\s]*\n[\s]* but I can't get them to work. Is there a known bug with regexes in the search and replace of PhpED? Or am I making a wrong turn somewhere?

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:20 pm

Yet, search/replace can't handle newlines because it matches editor content line by line.
But we'll enhance it one day.

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:09 am

Would be nice then maybe to mention that in the manual, because now the Regular Expression help also states the use of \n and \r which can be kind of confusing. Wink