Hello, I am trying to replace a whole paragraph in many files. But the replace function always truncate the paragraph after the first line.... I tried all different options available... Is there anything I missed?

Cedric REYMOND

trying to replace this:

	case 'eng': $dg_language = 'en'; break;
	case 'fra': $dg_language = 'fr'; break;
	case 'deu': $dg_language = 'de'; break;
	case 'pol': $dg_language = 'pl'; break;
	default: $dg_language = 'en'; break;

with this:
case ‘eng’: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;
case ‘fra’: $dg_language = ‘fr’; break;
case ‘deu’: $dg_language = ‘de’; break;
case ‘pol’: $dg_language = ‘pl’; break;
case ‘por’: $dg_language = ‘pt’; break;
case ‘spa’: $dg_language = ‘es’; break;
default: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;

rinku singh

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Alan Kilborn

@Cedric-REYMOND

You could do it with a “regular expression” search-mode replacement:

Search on:

case 'eng': $dg_language = 'en'; break;\Rcase 'fra': $dg_language = 'fr'; break;\Rcase 'deu': $dg_language = 'de'; break;\Rcase 'pol': $dg_language = 'pl'; break;\Rdefault: $dg_language = 'en'; break;\R

Replace with:

case ‘eng’: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;\r\ncase ‘fra’: $dg_language = ‘fr’; break;\r\ncase ‘deu’: $dg_language = ‘de’; break;\r\ncase ‘pol’: $dg_language = ‘pl’; break;\r\ncase ‘por’: $dg_language = ‘pt’; break;\r\ncase ‘spa’: $dg_language = ‘es’; break;\r\ndefault: $dg_language = ‘en’; break;\r\n

…or something similar since your “whitespace” is hard to determine from your posting.

If your files are Linux and not Windows, change \r\n to \n in the replace part.

Alan Kilborn

Oops, embedded special characters (e.g $) would need to be “escaped” in the search expression; example \$. Note: NOT needed or desired in the “replace” part.

Sorry for the omission.