Question

I’m using netbeans and I want to wrap $this->escape(stuff) around specific stuff in more files, using the replace feature, but there’s plenty of conditions, like:

match:

$this->$variable, $variable

$this->$array['something'], $this->$array[0], $array['something'], $array[0]

do not match:

$this->partial, $this->escape, $this->form

What I have so far that works ok

replace this

echo\s+(\$this->[->a-zA-Z_']+[^\s;(])

with this

echo \$this->escape\($1\)

It doesn’t work with arrays and doesn’t exclude anything, also doesn’t match $variable

Could anyone help out, improve the expression so that it would reduce the torture of going through so many strings by hand? Any help is appreciated.

edit: just adding the exclusions to my working example would be enough.

Answer 1

It’s not entirely clear what parts you’re trying to match. If I understood you correctly then this should work:

(?:\$this->)?\$[^,\s-]*(?=[,\s])

If you meant to match something else, please let me know.