Eclipse regex and newline bug
This is more of a case of just letting everyone know as to prevent head butting against the wall and going back through RegEx books.
I was trying to replace a load of commas with newlines via the find/replace using regex a task I thought was simple:
Find: "," Replace with: "\n"
All that happend was an "n" being inserted. I tried"
Find: "," Replace with: "\\n"
This inserted "\n".
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Just found this post on Google and wanted to say thanks. I switched to Eclipse from jEdit and have been wondering what the hell I've been doing wrong with my newline regexps!! Luckily I haven't uninstalled jEdit yet ;)
Eclipse 3.2.2 + QuickRex plugin
Haven't noticed this bug. \n is \n as it should be.
Also, the find-dialog helper for regex notation is really helpful. Dunno if it's there by default or was added by QuickRex.
Haven't noticed this bug. \n is \n as it should be.
Also, the find-dialog helper for regex notation is really helpful. Dunno if it's there by default or was added by QuickRex.
I found a little work-around. To get a new-line character, type the following in Eclipse:
--snip--
c
c
--snip--
(if the above doesn't format correctly for some reason, it is just a character on one line, and a character on the line below it)
Copy the two characters into the "Replace with" box and you'll now see something like:
c{weird character}c
Now, just replace the two c's with your own regexp stuff. The weird character will work as a newline.
--snip--
c
c
--snip--
(if the above doesn't format correctly for some reason, it is just a character on one line, and a character on the line below it)
Copy the two characters into the "Replace with" box and you'll now see something like:
c{weird character}c
Now, just replace the two c's with your own regexp stuff. The weird character will work as a newline.
As this is the second google result for this problem and I do not want to register in any website only to comment on that "bug", I post here another work-around for this (the previous one does not seem to work).
If the searched string is on a single line, instead of writing for example "^someRegExp$", write instead "^someRegExp([\n\r]+)" and use the last capturing group in the replacement string as the new line marker (for example: "my$1multline$1string").
If the searched string is on a single line, instead of writing for example "^someRegExp$", write instead "^someRegExp([\n\r]+)" and use the last capturing group in the replacement string as the new line marker (for example: "my$1multline$1string").
