Difference between revisions of "Search And Replace"

Revision as of 14:32, 6 February 2017

vEdit has very flexible search and replace capabilities. Besides searching for a literal sequence of characters, you can also search using vEdit’s powerful “pattern matching” or “regular expressions”.

Searches normally use pattern matching. This is a powerful searching syntax, unique to vEdit, that has “wildcard” characters for matching letters, digits and much more. It is easy to use; only the character “|” has a special meaning.

Searches can alternatively use regular expressions which is a powerful search and replace syntax from UNIX. It is much more complex and most punctuation characters have a special meaning.

You can also search in “ Simple ” mode without any pattern matching or regular expressions. It is only recommended for very novice users because no “wild- card” searching is possible.

Search and Replace

• Search Basics, Modes, & Options
• Search & Replace Basics
• Searching Within a Block
• Incremental Searching

Pattern Matching

• Pattern Matching Overview
• Pattern Matching the Newline
• Pattern Matching the Beginning / End
• Pattern Matching Multiple Characters
• Pattern Matching Sets
• Use Text Registers in Search Strings

Regular Expressions

• Regular Expressions Overview
• Regular Expressions Basics
• Special Matching Characters
• The “OR” Operator
• Groups and Replacement Strings
• Groups and Replacement Examples
• Matching the “Newline”
• Maximize Regular Expression Matching

Related Resources

• Wiki Home Page