Question

I’d like to replace some assignment statements like:

int someNum = txtSomeNum.Text; 
int anotherNum = txtAnotherNum.Text;

with

int someNum = Int32.Parse(txtSomeNum.Text);
int anotherNum = Int32.Parse(txtAnotherNum.Text);

Is there a good way to do this with Visual Studio’s Find and Replace, using Regular Expressions? I’m not sure what the Regular expression would be.

Answer 1

I think in Visual Studio, you can mark expressions with curly braces {txtSomeNum.Text}. Then in the replacement, you can refer to it with \1. So the replacement line would be something like Int32.Parse(\1).

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Update: via @Timothy003

VS 11 does away with the {} \1 syntax and uses () $1