Greg, I've come to the conclusion that you are in the wrong job. You should not be a developer. No, sir, you should be a tester.
Bit of Friday sass for you. ;) On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > More traps ... once I attempted to run find-and-replace through folders of > files in Visual Studio 2012 I ran into two more problems: > > The syntax of regular expressions changed from 2010 to 2012 and I never > read about this or noticed it until this morning. All of my find and > replaces did nothing, so I wasted another 40 minutes trying hundreds of > combinations of patterns using my printed "reminder sheets" as a guide, but > nothing happened. By fluke I pressed F1 in the dialog, which took me to a > VS2013 screen, then I went to VS2012 and I found the notice about the > change of syntax: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/2k3te2cs.aspx. So my > reminder sheets are in the bin and I'll print fresh ones for VS2012. > > Once I had the expressions correct I found that a regex find would work > over folders of files, but a replace changed nothing. I have tried many > combinations and it seems true that a VS2012 find-and-replace with regular > expressions does NOT work over a folder. If I open the files in the IDE it > works. Is this a real bug? > > Greg >
