Re: Regexp Query/Replace Without Trashing Original Text

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"Tennis Smith" <tennis_smith@yahoo-remove-to-reply.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> How can I convert something like this
> 
> $GLOBAL_VAR
> 
> to this:
> 
> $global_array(GLOBAL_VAR)
> 
> ??
> 
> Its easy to do a regexp query/replace for "\$[A-Z]", but I don't really want
> to change either the leading dollar sign ("$") or the trailing uppercase
> text (GLOBAL_VAR).

M-x replace-regexp RET \$\([A-Z][A-Z_]*\) RET $global_array(\1) RET

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