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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Blue Brown Green Red Violet Yellow Message: Forum code is on. Html is off. [quote][i]Originally posted by Martin Hohl[/i] [br][b]Support for regex replace of selected text or other keyword items in VA snippet editor[/b] Currently the VA editor seems to allow only replacement by keywords like $selected$, $SymbolName$ etc. At least until now I didn't find a way how to replace such items by regular expressions, e.g. $RegexReplace$($selected$,"ECMASCript_RegexPattern","ReplacementText") where "ECMASCript_RegexPattern" is a regular expression pattern fulfilling the standard as explained in http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/regex/ECMAScript/ and "ReplacementText" may contain text and references to match groups as explained in http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/regex/regex_replace/ for the 'fmt' parameter in a call like std::regex_replace(orig_string,std::regex(regex_pattern,regex_constants::ECMAScript),fmt); Please add support for regex replace of selected text or other keyword items in VA snippet editor, because it would allow extremly powerful customizable refactoring. (Of couse exceptions like regex_error in C++ should be caught and the message text coming from regex_error exception should be displayed, when user enters a defective regex pattern, in order to support correction of the pattern). Regards, Martin [img]https://forums.wholetomato.com/forum/uploaded/Martin Hohl/2017101384745_Proposal_for_regex_replace_in_VA Snippet Editor.png[/img] [/quote]   Check to include your profile signature. Check to subscribe to this topic.