Eclipse IDE Find/Replace Wildcard

Issue

I'm trying to replace parts of my code in a file that all have quotation marks around them. They look like this:

public static Map<String, String[]> "acidspray" = Map.ofEntries(
public static Map<String, String[]> "acrobatics" = Map.ofEntries(
    etc.

I wanna be able to just remove the quotes around the variable names. I've tried looking up how to use wildcards in the Find/Replace feature, but either I'm not understanding it or my situation is different than what I've been seeing. Some help would be awesome.

Solution

You will have to use a Regular Expression find/replace for that - so check the "Regular expressions" check box in the dialog.

The find string could be:

"(\w+)" =

which finds a " followed by one or more word characters followed by " = and captures the word characters. I have included the = to restrict the match to just assignments.

The replace string:

\1 =

\1 uses the word characters captured by the find pattern, followed by the =.

Answered By - greg-449