Hello, I searched the forums but I couldn't find any recent discussions on this. I have the latest version of PHPed for Windows 7

I would like to search and replace with regular expressions and newline characters, etc. like this:



This is something I used to do all the time 6 years ago when I was using Zend 5. It looks like regexp variables and special characters in the "replace" box might not be supported. Will this ever be implemented?

I could never find a metacharacter that would work for \t or \n in the replacement string, but there is another way.

Tick multiline search/replace and regular expression. Then search for FOO(.+) and replace with FOO<enter><tab>\1 but press the Enter key where I show <enter> and Tab key for <tab>

Where you are in multiline mode, those Enter and Tab characters will be entered directly into text. Bear in mind that if the PhpED editor is not set to Use tab character then a tab will be entered into the editor window as spaces.

Ah! I was used to using $1, $2... for regexp variables, I wouldn't have thought to try \1, \2...
That will help immensely! I guess I can use several regexp/nonregexp search and replace oparations to accomplish what I want, just not all in one go. Now that I know I can do variables, that really helps. Thanks, plugnplay

I thought I can do variables! Thanks for this one!