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Asked: 2026-06-15T16:30:48+00:00

I have quite a few source files in nested subfolders for a project. I

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I have quite a few source files in nested subfolders for a project. I have 4 different classes that I am attempting to replace, and want to locate every place in the source they are allocated (heap + stack).

Unfortunately, due to a poor include structure, Visual Studio’s “search entire solution” feature cannot be trusted, so I have resorted to a manual search within the source files.

What I believe is sufficient:

"new CLASS1(" with any combination of spaces between the three tokens there for heap and
"^CLASS2" where I’m trying to say the Class name starts at the beginning of the line (excluding spaces) for stack allocation.

For stack allocation, [^a-zA-Z] CLASS3 [a-zA-Z]+ was attempted, but I’m not fluent in regex so wanted to run this by SO. For heap, just that string above was tried, but I know that a simple extra spacing would break that pattern so I know it is incorrect.

Can anyone come up with a better matcher or even an entirely better way to go about the problem?

Thank you,

AK

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  1. Editorial Team

    Make the constructors private and you’ll get an error message for every attempt to create the object.

    Make a private new() operator to do the same trick with heap allocations.

    Edit: watch out for the code INSIDE the class implementation (including static methods) creating instances of itself. Calling a private constructor from such context is valid and won’t trigger an error. Also watch out for friend classes/functions.

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