My IDE PHPstorm allows you to do search and replace using regex, one of the things I find myself often doing is switching the order or action, aka, in function a I will set a value on items from list a using list b as the values.
but then in function b I want to invert it. so I want to set a value on items from list b using list a as the values.
A proper example is this:
var $clipDetailsGame = $('#clipDetailsGame');
var $clipDetailsTitle = $('#clipDetailsTitle');
var $clipDetailsByline = $('#clipDetailsByline');
var $clipDetailsTeamOne = $('#clipDetailsTeamOne');
var $clipDetailsTeamTwo = $('#clipDetailsTeamTwo');
var $clipDetailsReferee = $('#clipDetailsReferee');
var $clipDetailsDescription = $('#clipDetailsDescription');
var $clipDetailsCompetition = $('#clipDetailsCompetition');
function a(clip){
clip.data('gameId' , $clipDetailsGame.val());
clip.data('title' , $clipDetailsTitle.val());
clip.data('byline' , $clipDetailsByline.val());
clip.data('team1' , $clipDetailsTeamOne.val());
clip.data('team2' , $clipDetailsTeamTwo.val());
clip.data('refereeId' , $clipDetailsReferee.val());
clip.data('description' , $clipDetailsDescription.val());
clip.data('competitionId', $clipDetailsCompetition.val());
}
function b (clip){
$clipDetailsGame .val(clip.data('gameId'));
$clipDetailsTitle .val(clip.data('title'));
$clipDetailsByline .val(clip.data('byline'));
$clipDetailsTeamOne .val(clip.data('team1'));
$clipDetailsTeamTwo .val(clip.data('team2'));
$clipDetailsReferee .val(clip.data('refereeId'));
$clipDetailsDescription.val(clip.data('description'));
$clipDetailsCompetition.val(clip.data('competitionId'));
}
Excluding the formatting (It's just there to make my point clearer), what kind of regex could I use to do the replacement for me?
Basic regex -- nothing fancy or complex at all
Search for: (clip\.data\('[a-zA-Z0-9]+')\s*, (\$[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.val\()(\)\);)
Replace with: \$2\$1\$3
The only PhpStorm-related thing here is replacement string format -- you have to "escape" $ to have it work (i.e. it has to be \$2
to use 2nd back-trace instead of just $2
or \2
(as used in other engines)).
This will transform this:
clip.data('gameId' , $clipDetailsGame.val());
clip.data('title' , $clipDetailsTitle.val());
clip.data('byline' , $clipDetailsByline.val());
clip.data('team1' , $clipDetailsTeamOne.val());
clip.data('team2' , $clipDetailsTeamTwo.val());
clip.data('refereeId' , $clipDetailsReferee.val());
clip.data('description' , $clipDetailsDescription.val());
clip.data('competitionId', $clipDetailsCompetition.val());
into this:
$clipDetailsGame.val(clip.data('gameId'));
$clipDetailsTitle.val(clip.data('title'));
$clipDetailsByline.val(clip.data('byline'));
$clipDetailsTeamOne.val(clip.data('team1'));
$clipDetailsTeamTwo.val(clip.data('team2'));
$clipDetailsReferee.val(clip.data('refereeId'));
$clipDetailsDescription.val(clip.data('description'));
$clipDetailsCompetition.val(clip.data('competitionId'));
Useful link: http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/regular-expression-syntax-reference.html