Regex to find and replace in xcode…?

Question

I have a java file which I got from android, this has some hard coded values in it. Basically we have a file which creates an object of type country and adds it to a list.

I wish to attain the same functionality but I am not sure of the reg-ex required to find and replace the file contents. Basically this is how one of the lines in it looks like...

countries.add(new Country("af", "Afghanistan", 93));

And this is what I wan't it to look like

[countries addObject:[[Country alloc] initWithArray:@[@"af",@"Afghanistan",@"93"]];

Do you think regex can be used for such extensive case..? Or will I have to manually do this for every entry..?

Answer 1

You can do a literal search and capture groups like this and replace them.

Regex: countries\\.add\\(new Country\\("([az]+)", "(.*)", (\\d+)\\)\\);

Replacement to do: [countries addObject:[[Country alloc] initWithArray:@[@"$1",@"$2",@"$3"]];

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