Question

I Need to replace all the following samples with <#= ObjectType #>

<#= DatabaseName #>.<#= Table.Name #>
<#=DatabaseName#>.<#=Table.Name#>
<#=  DatabaseName  #>.<#=  Table.Name  #>
<#=DatabaseName #>.<#= Table.Name#>

As you see All of this samples start with <#= and can continued by some spaces or none then DatabaseName and again can continued by some spaces or none then #>.<#= and again can continued by some spaces or none then Table.Name then some spaces or non and at the end #>

I try to use Visual Studio 2010 Find and replace files so what is your suggestion regex to match this samples?

Answer 1

The following regex will do what you asked (tested with your examples), using the Visual Studio regular expressions syntax:

^\<\#=:b*DatabaseName:b*\#\>\.\<\#=:b*Table\.Name:b*\#\>$

I am anchoring to both the start ^ and end $ of the line, though you may not want to.

Also, <, #, > and . all need escaping.

:b* means any number of spaces or tabs.