Find & Replace options

Kieren Baillie

I’m trying to put this code at certain lines in my program.

first_program_used =  main_address + r"\first_program_used.txt"

These lines have slight differences so find & replace won’t work.
But every single line has this under it.

file = open(first_program_used)

So I was wondering if it’s possible to find all lines with “file = open(first_program_used)”
Go one line up and replace everything there with “first_program_used = main_address + r”\first_program_used.txt""

Claudia Frank

@Kieren-Baillie said:

with regular expression checked and a look ahead regex in find what like

(?-s)^.*(?=\Rfile = open\(first_program_used\))

you should be able to to find the line prior to file = open …

Note: in replace with you need to escape the \first by \\first so it looks like

first_program_used =  main_address + r"\\first_program_used.txt"

Cheers
Claudia