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Simple "Find and Replace" TextModification [message #1823537]

Sat, 28 March 2020 15:03

Sina Madani

Messages: 160
Registered: November 2015
Location: York, UK

Senior Member

Hi,
I've been tearing my hair out trying to edit the default workspace for a new install. The problem is on Windows this requires escaping backslashes in "configuration:/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs". So I have a TextModification task with the following properties:

<setupTask
        xsi:type="setup:TextModifyTask"
        url="configuration:/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs">
      <modification
          pattern="(.*=[A-Z]\:)(?:(\\)([\w|-]+))+">
        <substitution>\1</substitution>
        <substitution>\2\\</substitution>
        <substitution>\3</substitution>
      </modification>
      <description>Formats workspace path in RECENT_WORKSPACES</description>
    </setupTask>

The file is:

RECENT_WORKSPACES=C:\Users\Sina-\Epsilon\epsilon-Interim\workspace
MAX_RECENT_WORKSPACES=5
RECENT_WORKSPACES_PROTOCOL=3
SHOW_RECENT_WORKSPACES=false
SHOW_WORKSPACE_SELECTION_DIALOG=false
eclipse.preferences.version=1

It's obvious what I'm trying to do: replace \ with \\. But I'm not smart enough to work this out. I've looked at the source code and I get what it's doing, but for something so simple as this, isn't there an easier way?!
Thanks.

[Updated on: Sat, 28 March 2020 15:04]

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