Hello!
I was wondering if it is possible to conditionally enable/disable sections of a replacement string in Sublime Text’s Find/Replace UI.
As an example, I have a find string as follows:
(?x) # Allow comments
# IF_P <STAR>
(?'if' IF_P ) \s*
[*] \s*
(
# NOT <STAR>
(?'not' NOT ) \s*
[*] \s*
)?
# EXISTS
(?'verb' ( EXISTS ) )
What I would like to do is replace matches of that find string with
OPT_IF_NOT_$VERB
IF the capture group “NOT” exists, otherwise just
OPT_IF_${VERB}
Note that this can’t be done by substituting the “NOT” capture group, as
OPT_IF_${NOT}_${VERB}
would result in
OPT_IF__EXISTS
in cases where the “NOT” capture group doesn’t exist.
(note the extra underscore)
I’ve tried using Boost-Extended format strings, since I know that Sublime Text does (or did) use Boost’s regular expression syntax, however that doesn’t seem to work.