Matt Bourke

Category: regex

Jun 6 2010

Searching code with regex

Ever had trouble finding where a variable is set, displayed or manipulated throughout a large application?
I can remember often trying to find code before having any knowledge of regex. An example of a problem I used to face several years ago is the following.
I would inherit a large mess of an application and in the code I would find a variable #abc123#, not knowing where this is set I would do a

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