Question

I am using Visual Studio and I want to Find/Replace spaces with underscores in one of my classes.

However I am coding in C# and when using the standard Find/Replace dialogue box like so:

It also Finds and Replaces all of my whitespace, which I don’t want.

Is there a way to perform a Find/Replace only inside strings?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the Visual Studio regular expression flavour – click the Use checkbox and select Regular expressions in the drop down.

Something like the following should work (it will match a string containing only whitespace and place the whitespaces in a capturing group):

"(:b+)"