Question

Assuming I have some object like, with LOTS of properties:

public class SomeObject
{
  public SomeOtherObject1 Property1 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject2 Property2 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject3 Property3 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject4 Property4 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject5 Property5 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject6 Property6 { get; set; }
}

It would be really cool if I could create a constructor and copy the properties into the constructor…

public class SomeObject
{
  public SomeObject
  {
    public SomeOtherObject1 Property1 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject2 Property2 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject3 Property3 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject4 Property4 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject5 Property5 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject6 Property6 { get; set; }
  }

  public SomeOtherObject1 Property1 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject2 Property2 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject3 Property3 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject4 Property4 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject5 Property5 { get; set; }
  public SomeOtherObject6 Property6 { get; set; }
}

And use Visual Studio’s Find And Replace with Regex to change the highlighted lines in the constructor from:

    public SomeOtherObject1 Property1 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject2 Property2 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject3 Property3 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject4 Property4 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject5 Property5 { get; set; }
    public SomeOtherObject6 Property6 { get; set; }

to:

    this.Property1 = new SomeOtherObject1();
    this.Property2 = new SomeOtherObject2();
    this.Property3 = new SomeOtherObject3();
    this.Property4 = new SomeOtherObject4();
    this.Property5 = new SomeOtherObject5();
    this.Property6 = new SomeOtherObject6();

First I tried:

public\s{:i}\s{:i}\s{\sget;\sset;\s}

this.\2 = new \1();

Then I thought maybe it was a line issue, so I tried:

^\s*public\s{:i}\s{:i}\s{\sget;\sset;\s}.$

this.\2 = new \1();

Anyone else have any thought on how to get this to work?

Answer 1

You need to escape the {} around get; set;. Also, I’ve used :b instead of \s and allowed for more than one. Here:

public:b+{:i}:b+{:i}:b*\{:b*get;:b*set;:b*\}

And as you wrote:

this.\2 = new \1();