How do I match space(s) in Visual Studio 2012 Find and Replace dialog?

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Hi,

Try as I might, I cannot find an expression to match one or more spaces in the Visual Studio 2012 Find and Replace dialog. I am trying to match expressions like the following:

<p class="StyleA">Chapter 12</p>

The expression is completely constant except for two things:

1. There may be more than a single space between 'Chapter' and the number that follows it.
2. Obviously the chapter number changes, using any sequence of numeric characters [0-9].

My latest attempts are as follows, but both match only as far as the end of the word 'Chapter'.

<p class="StyleA">Chapter[^<]+</p>

<p class="StyleA">Chapter[ ]+</p>

Can anyone see where I am going wrong, please?

Kind wishes ~ Patrick

Posted 27-Apr-14 5:11am

Patrick Skelton

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Thomas Daniels · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-27T06:04:00

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The problem is that you only match p-tags containing Chapter followed by some spaces, without the number. Try this instead:

HTML

<p class="StyleA">Chapter +\d+</p>

Also, it's not necessary to put the space into a character class.

If you don't only want to match spaces, but all whitespace, then replace the space with \s

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<p class="StyleA">Chapter\s+\d+</p>

Posted 27-Apr-14 6:04am

Thomas Daniels

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Patrick Skelton 28-Apr-14 4:45am

Yes, that works fine. I did actually have the number recogniser in my code, but I failed to include it in my question. Sorry. It was the space thing that was causing me problems, though, so thank you.

Thomas Daniels 28-Apr-14 12:04pm

You're welcome!

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