Question

I want to use regex to do two things:

1.Comment all the strings that call the method .EnterText:

myField1.EnterText( a, 1000 );
myField2.EnterText( b, 3000 );

I have lots of those lines. How can I use regex to achieve something like this in Visual Studio:

//myField1.EnterText( a, 1000 );
//myField2.EnterText( b, 3000 );

2.After commenting those lines I want to copy them and change the calls in the following way:

myField1.Value = a;

So eventually I want to have something like this:

//myField1.EnterText( a, 1000 );
myField1.Value = a;
//myField2.EnterText( b, 3000 );
myField2.Value = b;

Answer 1

Try this

Find what:

{{.*\.}EnterText\({[^,]+}.*}

Replace with

//\1\n\2Value = \3

In Visual Studio you have to use {} to create a capturing group, means: you can reuse the matched parts inside those brackets using backreferences. \1 refers to the first opening bracket, \2 to the second, …

[^,]+ is a negated character class that matches at least on character that is not a comma after the bracket of the method.