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I was trying to search for ".IsSet", but not "DocumentState.IsSet", in VS 2008 using regular expression search. How do I compose the regular expression?

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  • Are you saying that you want to search for every *\.IsSet except for when it begins with "DocumentState"? I think that is somewhat advanced... Commented Aug 4, 2009 at 18:17
  • Right, I'm searching for not begin with "DocumentState" Commented Aug 4, 2009 at 18:35

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Try

(?!<DocumentState)\.IsSet

The ?!< is a "negative lookbehind".

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~(DocumentState)\.IsSet

will match all .IsSet instances that do not follow DocumentState. To match exactly .IsSet but not .IsSetFoo, you can either use

~(DocumentState)\.IsSet>

or check the Match whole word option.

See Regular Expressions (Visual Studio) for a list of regular expression tokens supported in the Visual Studio search.

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Try this : 

^\.IsSet

^ : means beginning of the string.

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I don't know if you can with the VS Search, but you can

  1. Replace DocumentState.IsSet by a token (like "DOCSTATE")
  2. Replace all .IsSert
  3. Replace your token "DOCSTATE" with DocumentState.IsSet
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