EditPoint.ReplacePattern Method

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Finds a pattern in the specified range of text and replaces it with the specified text.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function ReplacePattern ( _
    Point As TextPoint, _
    Pattern As String, _
    Replace As String, _
    vsFindOptionsValue As Integer, _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef Tags As TextRanges _
) As Boolean

bool ReplacePattern(
    TextPoint Point,
    string Pattern,
    string Replace,
    int vsFindOptionsValue,
    out TextRanges Tags
)

bool ReplacePattern(
    [InAttribute] TextPoint^ Point, 
    [InAttribute] String^ Pattern, 
    [InAttribute] String^ Replace, 
    [InAttribute] int vsFindOptionsValue, 
    [InAttribute] [OutAttribute] TextRanges^% Tags
)

abstract ReplacePattern : 
        Point:TextPoint * 
        Pattern:string * 
        Replace:string * 
        vsFindOptionsValue:int * 
        Tags:TextRanges byref -> bool 

function ReplacePattern(
    Point : TextPoint, 
    Pattern : String, 
    Replace : String, 
    vsFindOptionsValue : int, 
    Tags : TextRanges
) : boolean

Parameters

  • Point
    Type: EnvDTE.TextPoint
    Required. The endpoint of the specified range of text. The edit point and Point are the boundaries for replacement.
  • Replace
    Type: System.String
    Required. The replacement string for Pattern.
  • Tags
    Type: EnvDTE.TextRanges%
    Optional. If the matched pattern is a regular expression containing tagged sub-expressions, then Tags contains a collection of TextRange objects, one for each tagged subexpression.

Return Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if replacement occurs successfully; otherwise, false.

Remarks

ReplacePattern finds text similarly to FindPattern, except that it only searches the text between edit point and the argument Point. To find and replace in the entire document, use ReplacePattern. The Tags collection returns only information for the last matched pattern.

Examples

Sub ReplacePatternExample()
   Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
   Dim objMovePt As EditPoint
   Dim objEditPt As EditPoint, iCtr As Integer

   ' Create a new text file.
   DTE.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")

   ' Get a handle to the new document and create an EditPoint.
   objTextDoc = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")
   objMovePt = objTextDoc.EndPoint.CreateEditPoint
   objEditPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint

   ' Insert ten lines of text.
   For iCtr = 1 To 10
      objEditPt.Insert("This is a test." & Chr(13))
   Next iCtr
   objEditPt.StartOfDocument()
   objMovePt.EndOfDocument()
   ' Replace all occurrences of "test" with "thing."
    objEditPt.ReplacePattern(objMovePt, "test", "thing", vsFindOptions.vsFindOptionsFromStart)
End Sub

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See Also

Reference

EditPoint Interface

EnvDTE Namespace