Need help with a regex search and replace

Steve Hobley

I’ve inherited an old ASP Classic website with over 2000 files in it :(

I need to rework the session code, replacing

Session(“KeyOfSomeKind”) = “ValueOfSomeKind”

with

WriteSession(“KeyOfSomeKind”, “ValueOfSomeKind”)

and

var x = Session(“KeyOfSomeKind”)

with

var x = ReadSession(“KeyOfSomeKind”)

[OK, so the last one is just a regular S+R, but I wanted to include it for full complexity]

Is there a regex notation for Notepad++ that could do this over all the files?

Steve

Claudia Frank

Hello @Steve-Hobley

you can do regex with Find in Files dialog.

Add you regexes for find and replace,
maybe modify the filter so that only asp code pages get accessed
set directory to your wwwroot directory and check in-all subfolders
check regular expression in search mode section
press find in files to see if the code is as expected and to have a reference of the files which will get modified
then press replace in all files

Be sure you have a backup in case of a disaster ;-)

Cheers
Claudia

Steve Hobley

Thanks… I got as far as running a regex for find in files, but what I really need help with is constructing the regex expression.
Has anyone done anything similar?

Claudia Frank

Hello @Steve-Hobley,

from the given example I would do it like

find: ^\s*(Session\()(".*?")\)\s*=\s*(".*?")[\t\f ]*$
replace: Write\1\2, \3\)

It is assumed that before Session word there are either non or multiple whitespace chars only nothing else
and that the code is like provided, no additional spaces like

Session ( "KeyOfSomeKind" ) = "ValueOfSomeKind"

As you already said the second is a simple Replace.

Cheers
Claudia

Steve Hobley

Thanks! That did the trick.