find-and-replace.md

Find and Replace

Starting From version 1.2.1 CodeView now have support for find and replace feature easily.

• To get a list of tokens that matchs your regex, you can use findMatches method.

List<Token> tokens = codeView.findMatches(regex);

• To highlight and get the next matching token you can use findNextMatch

Token token = codeView.findNextMatch();

• To highlight and get the previous matching token you can use findPrevMatch

Token token = codeView.findPrevMatch();

• You can set differnt color for highlighting matching token depend on your theme

codeView.setMatchingHighlightColor(color);

• To clear all the matches tokens

codeView.clearMatches();

• You can replace the first string that matching the regex with other string.

codeView.replaceFirstMatch(regex, replacement);

• You can replace all strings that matching the regex with other string.

codeView.replaceAllMatches(regex, replacement);

You will find a full example with UI dialog for this feature in the example app