EditPoint2.ReplacePattern Method
Finds a pattern in the specified range of text and replaces it with the specified text.
Namespace: EnvDTE80
Assembly: EnvDTE80 (in EnvDTE80.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Function ReplacePattern ( _
Point As TextPoint, _
Pattern As String, _
Replace As String, _
vsFindOptionsValue As Integer, _
<OutAttribute> ByRef Tags As TextRanges _
) As Boolean
bool ReplacePattern(
TextPoint Point,
string Pattern,
string Replace,
int vsFindOptionsValue,
out TextRanges Tags
)
bool ReplacePattern(
[InAttribute] TextPoint^ Point,
[InAttribute] String^ Pattern,
[InAttribute] String^ Replace,
[InAttribute] int vsFindOptionsValue,
[InAttribute] [OutAttribute] TextRanges^% Tags
)
abstract ReplacePattern :
Point:TextPoint *
Pattern:string *
Replace:string *
vsFindOptionsValue:int *
Tags:TextRanges byref -> bool
function ReplacePattern(
Point : TextPoint,
Pattern : String,
Replace : String,
vsFindOptionsValue : int,
Tags : TextRanges
) : boolean
Parameters
- Point
Type: EnvDTE.TextPoint
Required. The endpoint of the specified range of text. The edit point and Point are the boundaries for replacement.
- Pattern
Type: System.String
Required. The string to find.
- Replace
Type: System.String
Required. The replacement string for Pattern.
- vsFindOptionsValue
Type: System.Int32
Optional. A vsFindOptions constant indicating the type of search to perform.
- Tags
Type: EnvDTE.TextRanges%
Optional. If the matched pattern is a regular expression containing tagged sub-expressions, then Tags contains a collection of TextRange objects, one for each tagged sub-expression.
Return Value
Type: System.Boolean
true if replacement occurs successfully; otherwise, false.
Implements
EditPoint.ReplacePattern(TextPoint, String, String, Int32, TextRanges%)
Remarks
ReplacePattern finds text similarly to FindPattern, except that it only searches the text between edit point and the argument Point. To find and replace in the entire document, use TextDocument.ReplacePattern. The Tags collection returns only information for the last matched pattern.
Examples
Sub ReplacePatternExample()
Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
Dim objMovePt As EditPoint
Dim objEditPt As EditPoint, iCtr As Integer
' Create a new text file.
DTE.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")
' Get a handle to the new document and create an EditPoint.
objTextDoc = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")
objMovePt = objTextDoc.EndPoint.CreateEditPoint
objEditPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint
' Insert ten lines of text.
For iCtr = 1 To 10
objEditPt.Insert("This is a test." & Chr(13))
Next iCtr
objEditPt.StartOfDocument()
objMovePt.EndOfDocument()
' Replace all occurrences of "test" with "thing."
objEditPt.ReplacePattern(objMovePt, "test", "thing", vsFindOptions.vsFindOptionsFromStart)
End Sub
.NET Framework Security
- Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.