
When you search for a text string that contains special regex symbols, P圜harm automatically escapes them with backlash \ in the search field. If you want to check the syntax of regular expressions, hover over and click the Show expressions help link. If you need to search and replace in more than one file, press Ctrl+Shift+R.Įnter a search string in the top field and a replace string in the bottom field.Ĭlick to enable regular expressions. Press Ctrl+R to open the search and replace pane. Once you learn the regex syntax, you can use it for almost any language. They can help you in pattern matching, parsing, filtering of results, and so on. When you want to search and replace specific patterns of text, use regular expressions.

Find and replace text using regular expressions
