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In eclipse, is it possible to use the matched search string as part of the replace string when performing a regular expression search and replace?

Basically, I want to replace all occurrences of

variableName.someMethod()

with:

((TypeName)variableName.someMethod())

Where variableNamevariableName can be any variable name at all.

In sed I could use something like:

s/[a-zA-Z]+\.someMethod\(\)/((TypeName)&)/g

That is, && represents the matched search string. Is there something similar in Eclipse?

Thanks!

In eclipse, is it possible to use the matched search string as part of the replace string when performing a regular expression search and replace?

Basically, I want to replace all occurrences of

variableName.someMethod()

with:

((TypeName)variableName.someMethod())

Where variableName can be any variable name at all.

In sed I could use something like:

s/[a-zA-Z]+\.someMethod\(\)/((TypeName)&)/g

That is, & represents the matched search string. Is there something similar in Eclipse?

Thanks!

In eclipse, is it possible to use the matched search string as part of the replace string when performing a regular expression search and replace?

Basically, I want to replace all occurrences of

variableName.someMethod()

with:

((TypeName)variableName.someMethod())

Where variableName can be any variable name at all.

In sed I could use something like:

s/[a-zA-Z]+\.someMethod\(\)/((TypeName)&)/g

That is, & represents the matched search string. Is there something similar in Eclipse?

Thanks!

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user21037

Eclipse, regular expression search and replace

In eclipse, is it possible to use the matched search string as part of the replace string when performing a regular expression search and replace?

Basically, I want to replace all occurrences of

variableName.someMethod()

with:

((TypeName)variableName.someMethod())

Where variableName can be any variable name at all.

In sed I could use something like:

s/[a-zA-Z]+\.someMethod\(\)/((TypeName)&)/g

That is, & represents the matched search string. Is there something similar in Eclipse?

Thanks!

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