Re: Regarding replacing regexp

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2012-05-10 11:37, shirish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am in the process of learning how to use emacs. I know about the
> replace-regexp but I am unable to create a regular expression to do the
> below.
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> public static final String SUCCESS //Successmesg
> public static final String FAILURE  //failuremessage
>
> I need to replace that with
>
> public static final String SUCCESS = "SUCCESS";//Successmesg
> public static final String FAILURE  = "FAILURE"; //failuremessage
>
> Thanks,
> Shirish.

There are a lot of ways to do it.  One could be:

String \([^ ]+\)

and replace it with:

String \1 = "\1"

I would personally use keyboard macros for it.

I hope that helps,
Deniz