Regular Expression: Matching a string with a variable inside for Find/Replace - Notepad++

Question

So, I'm trying to do a Find and Replace in notepad++ with regular expressions, because I have a 'Find' string that can have any number of characters between 2 quotes. Here is a sample of my data.

<myVar Variable="MY-VAR" Type="string"/>
<myOtherVar Variable="MYOTHERVAR" Type="int"/>
<finalVar Variable="FVAR" Type="string"/>

So, I want to match ' Variable="[everything inside the quotes]" T ' and replace it with ' field="" t '.

I don't want to save what's in the quotes. The ultimate goal is to have lines that looks like this:

<myVar field="" type="string"/>
<myOtherVar field="" type="int"/>
<finalVar field="" type="string"/>

I think this has been my best attempt so far in the Find box, but ya'll can tell me if not. XD

/' variable="(\w+)" t'/

Thanks all!

Answer 1

Don't know the notepad++ regex syntax, but following idea should work:

try to replace

Variable="[^"]*"\s+T

with

field="" t

EDIT

I don't have windows machine, just installed notepad++ in a virtual box, and did a small test :)

the result looks like this:

Answer 2

With Notepad++ your RegEx will be:

Variable=".*" 

Don't forget the last SPACE it's important. Replace it with

field="" 

also containing a space as last character.

Greets