JaedenRuiner
Member
Alright,
I've tried every manner available to my knowledge, and I can't get BackReferences to work. There is absolutely no point whatsoever to code the ability to use Regular Expressions in search/replace functions unless you can use back references in the replacement text.
I'm using PL/SQL Developer 7.0.3.1123, as we don't have the license for 7.1, and I am doing a simple search & replace:
Search: ^(!echo(.)*)
Replace: /* $1 */
I've tried dollar-sign ($) syntax, i've tried backslash (\) syntax and nothing works. I want to leave the line text alone, i just want to comment out every line that starts with !echo. This is because a lot of my coworkers write their sql via a CRT telnet window to the linux server, where as I use PL SQL Developer. PLSQL doesn't recognize the !echo command, so I need to comment them all out.
It is a royal pain to have to copy and paste the entire file every time i need to do a search replace that utilizes regular expressions just because I can't find out how to utilize back-references in PL SQL developer. If anyone knows how I can use this fundamental technology, please let me know, because this is rather frustrating.
Regards
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner
I've tried every manner available to my knowledge, and I can't get BackReferences to work. There is absolutely no point whatsoever to code the ability to use Regular Expressions in search/replace functions unless you can use back references in the replacement text.
I'm using PL/SQL Developer 7.0.3.1123, as we don't have the license for 7.1, and I am doing a simple search & replace:
Search: ^(!echo(.)*)
Replace: /* $1 */
I've tried dollar-sign ($) syntax, i've tried backslash (\) syntax and nothing works. I want to leave the line text alone, i just want to comment out every line that starts with !echo. This is because a lot of my coworkers write their sql via a CRT telnet window to the linux server, where as I use PL SQL Developer. PLSQL doesn't recognize the !echo command, so I need to comment them all out.
It is a royal pain to have to copy and paste the entire file every time i need to do a search replace that utilizes regular expressions just because I can't find out how to utilize back-references in PL SQL developer. If anyone knows how I can use this fundamental technology, please let me know, because this is rather frustrating.
Regards
Jaeden "Sifo Dyas" al'Raec Ruiner
