Question

I have a bunch of assignment operations in Visual Studio, and I want to reverse them:
i.e

i = j;

would become

j = i;

i.e. replacing everything before the equals with what's after the equals, and vice versa

Is there any easy way to do this, say something in the regular expression engine?

Answer 1

Select the lines you want to swap, Ctrl+H, then replace:

{:i}:b*=:b*{:i};

with:

\2 = \1;

with “Look in:” set to “Selection”

That only handles C/C++ style identifiers, though (via the “:i”). Replace that with:

{.*}:b*=:b*{.*};

to replace anything on either side of the “=”.

Also, since you mentioned in a comment you use ReSharper, you can just highlight the “=”, Alt+Enter, and “Reverse assignment”.