Question

I have a bunch of code that I need to do a search and replace on to get it into the proper form for a new project. I need to remove a prefix from a bunch of identifiers, but I don’t want it to have any effect inside of a quoted string. For example if I have this code

#include "ABCmyfile.h"

class ABCmyclass
{
 ...
};

I would like the output to be

#include "ABCmyfile.h"

class myclass
{
  ...
}

I have to many different identifiers to search for, so I can’t just do ABCmyclass -> myclass, because that would take too long.

In regular expression mode, in the search and replace dialog I tried to search for

~:q<ABC

and replace it with nothing, but that’s not working.

Does anyone know of a search and replace regular expression that I could use to strip the prefix off of my identifiers?

Answer 1

Can’t you do it in three steps:

1. Replace "ABC with "__PLACEHOLDER__
2. Replace ABC with nothing
3. Replace __PLACEHOLDER__ with ABC