Textmate Regex Simple Find/Replace

Question

I am trying to do a simple find and replace. I have:

  <?php $url = 'http://www.mywebsite.net/this-is-a-page.php'; ?>

as a variable on each page and I'm replacing it with:

  <?php $url = curPageURL(); ?>

I had my find set up like this:

   <?php $url =( .*); ?>

but that's clearly incorrect because it doesn't return any results when I hit find. Any help would be super appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to escape some characters.

Try this <\?php \$url =( .*); \?>

• ? denotes 0 or 1 of the previous character.
• $ denotes end of line.

Escaping them changes them to literal matches.

Answer 2

You have your capture group on the bit you want to replace instead of the bits you want to keep. I think you need something like this:

(<\?php \$url =)[^\?]+(\?>)

then replace it with

\1 curPageURL();\2

Not sure if TextMate uses \1 for reference or $1