Why keywords not permitted in Search patterns? Follow

Hello Scott,

Please note that you should specify full language construct so that SSR could
parse it. For instance replace

foreach($type$ $v1$ in $v2$)
{
  $stmt$
}

with

foreach(var $v1$ in $v2$)
{
  $stmt$
}

works fine for me. Let me know if this helps. Thank you!

Andrey Serebryansky
Senior Support Engineer
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

I'm curious why I can't put keywords into a R# search pattern. For
example, I'd like to do a search & replace from this:

foreach ($type$

To this:

foreach (var

But the search pattern dialog tells me that the expression can't be
parsed if I type "foreach". Whereas "foreac" is fine. This leads me to
believe that keywords are not allowed in the search pattern.

Is there a way around this?

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http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5310481#5310481

Oh, cool. Ok, then can I add a feature request? :) It would be useful to have more information than "Search pattern could not be parsed" on a problem with the search pattern. I end up just guessing at what I did wrong.

Also: the pattern works, but it appears to work too much. I used your example (though I removed the braces), and set 'type' as a type, 'v1' as an identifier, 'v2' as an expression, and 'stmt' as any number of statements. I set it to be a warning. It works perfectly on this:

                foreach (int i in new[] { 1, 2, 3 })
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(i);
                }

But when I replace that int with a var, I still get the warning. So apparently 'var' is considered a type in the search pattern, somehow?