Trying to use Visual Studio IDE (Find & Replace) as quick and dirty regex tool but got stuck

Question

I have an xml text file open in the VS2005 IDE.

It has 4 highlighted lines:

<mc id="dog" name="mydogBob"/>
<mc id="cat" name="katie"/>
<mc id="turtle" name="slow"/>
<mc id="fish" name="happy"/>

How to use VS2005 Find / Replace function with regex to replace words and make the final result like this:

dog
cat
turtle
fish

Thank you very much

-Simon

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simon 28 nov. '08 at 4:29

1 answer

CMS · Answer 1 · 2008-11-28T04:39:56+0000

Find what:

^.*id="{.*}" .*$

Replace with:

\1

In the Search Options box, select Use and select Regular Expressions from the drop-down menu.