Thanks for responding. I'll give it a try.
On Jul 2, 5:10 am, jwkr...@shaw.ca ("John W. Krahn") wrote:
> sdDirtySox wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Hello,
>
> > I want to use a perl script that will look at all the files in a
> > directory to find an instance of a function and replace it with
> > another. I have the code in place to look at all the files in a
> > directory and to search line by line, but I'm having problems with the
> > regex to use.
>
> > Example:
>
> > sprintf(str, "hello");
>
> > replaced with:
>
> > sprintf_s(str, sizeof(str), "hello");
>
> This may work but it is UNTESTED:
>
> s/sprintf\(\s*(\w+),\s*(".*?")\s*\);/sprintf($1, sizeof($1), $2);/
>
> John
> --
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> and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
> direction. -- Albert Einstein
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