Today I found a way to do a regex find that makes reformatting code easy.
Let’s say we have some code like this:
<p>{{$variable}}</p>and you want it formatted like this:
<p>{{ $variable }}</p>This is what I prefer because it gives more breathing room and makes the code easier to read. But these can be scattered in many places in your code.
By doing a global find/replace using this regex, you can replace them all in one shot:
\{\{(?! )It uses a negative lookahead, which means it will find all occurrences of {{ that are not followed by a space. You could find the closing portion by reversing it. Then use the global replace function and make your commit.
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