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.