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Question

This question might have an answer somewhere out there in the internet but I can't seem to find it. Of course if you have a link to give me I will gladly accept it as an answer if it is what I am looking for.

Here goes: How can I exclude some strings from my global search?

Basically I use the Ctrl + Shift + F to find all occurrences of a nameOfTheFile.php string to find all the patterns that call this file. A not so very smart developer created multiple nameOfTheFile.php everywhere and so the path to include them always changes, I need something fix so I need to change every single call. There is a lot of calls => 1533 occurrences according to PhpStorm so doing them one by one is NOT an option.

So my plan is to write all the patterns down (there shouldn't be more than 50 so it is doable) and replace all of them later. To do that I could use a filter to exclude the patterns that I have already found .

At the moment the pattern list would be something like:

include_once("folderY/nameOfTheFile.php");
include_once(PATH . "folderY/nameOfTheFile.php");
include_once (PATH . "folderY/nameOfTheFile.php");
include_once ("../../../folderX/nameOfTheFile.php");
include_once ("../../folderX/nameOfTheFile.php");
include_once ("../folderX/nameOfTheFile.php");
require_once($settings['siteFilepath'] . "folderY/nameOfTheFile.php");

How can I exclude those strings from the search? I thought of using a Regex but as I am not an expert (Junior Dev here:/) I can't really come up with it. Also I would think that maybe there is something built in PhpStorm that could work better.

Have I missed something? Is there a Regex to help me? Bonus point: if there is a Regex please explain how it works (remember I am far from being an expert).

Answer 1

in PhpStorm go to replace all cntr+shift+R select 'Regex' option and enter

include_once.*nameOfTheFile\.php"\);

this will select offending entries for replacement