regex search in vs2010

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How can I perform a case insensitive search that will find two words that may or may not have a space between them in Visual Studio 2010 e.g.

Foo Bar

FooBar

fooBar

foo bar

EDIT:

Sorry I should have been clearer - I mean a ctrl+shift+f (Edit -> Find and Replace -> Find in Files) search in VS2010 - I don't want to implement this in code - I want to find code/comments etc that matches the search criteria above.

I could also just do four searches... but I am interested to know how to do this in one go, and I would feel more comfortable doing it in one go as I am refactoring.

Cheers Rob

Rob Smyth · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-05 07:30:02Z

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Use the regex:

foo:b*bar

In VS search form: enter image description here

In code Regex has a case sensitivity option.

answered Jan 5, 2012 at 7:30

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escargot agile · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-05 06:42:03Z

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You could do it with a single regular expression, but I believe the code will be more readable if you handle each case seprately. Check if the string looks like "FooBar" (maybe using a regex), and if it doesn't, just count the number of spaces in the string (you can use Trim()) to eliminate the leading and training spaces).

answered Jan 5, 2012 at 6:42

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