Regular expression replace in notepad ++

Question

I need to do a regex find and replace:

every

"<xsl:if test="any/text()"

has to be replaced by

"<xsl:if test="normalize-space(any/text())"

I have tried Find:

<xsl:if test="(.*)/text()

replace by

<xsl:if test="normalize-space(\1/text())

but it doesn't work..

so every if statement where /text() is present, replace it by normalize-space(../text())

thx

Mihai Toader · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-13 15:12:02Z

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() are special chars in regexes. You need to escape them to be able to match them. Like this:

<xsl:if test="(.*)/text\(\)

answered Jan 13, 2011 at 15:06

Mihai Toader

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