Question

I’m using the Find and Replace dialog in Visual Studio 2010. I don’t have a problem getting results to match the find criteria. The problem is, the result after the find / replace operation concludes is an * in the string. Visual Studio is treating the asterisk as a literal character and places * in the result. Not what I need and not all that useful.

I’m using this for the Find criteria:

@Html.TextBoxFor(*)

I’m using this for the Replace criteria:

@Html.TextBoxFor(*, new { @class = "className" })

If this is my starting string,

@Html.TextBoxFor( x => x.price)

I want the result to be

@Html.TextBoxFor( x => x.price, new { @class = "className" })

not this

@Html.TextBoxFor(*, new { @class = "className" })

How do I perform a find with a wildcard (*) but not replace the match with a literal * ?

Answer 1

Select “use Regular Expressions”.

Find \@Html\.TextBoxFor\({.*}\)

Replace with @Html.TextBoxFor(\1, new { @class = "className" })