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File search & replace programatically? [message #327404]

Thu, 17 April 2008 12:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

Is there any simple API for doing a search & replace within a single
file? I'm looking at the IFile interface and it looks like I could use
some combination of getContents() and setContents() but there would
still be a lot of coding to bridge the gap.
Is there a cleaner/simpler way?

Thanks in advance,
Eric

Re: File search & replace programatically? [message #327417 is a reply to message #327404]

Fri, 18 April 2008 03:14

Eclipse User

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> Is there any simple API for doing a search & replace within a single
> file? I'm looking at the IFile interface and it looks like I could use
> some combination of getContents() and setContents() but there would
> still be a lot of coding to bridge the gap.
> Is there a cleaner/simpler way?
Use file buffers to get the document (this handles all the encoding woos
for you) and then use org.eclipse.jface.text.FindReplaceDocumentAdapter
which also supports regex.

Dani
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eric

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