find

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find

Utility functions for pattern matching. For use in tools that do text editing or command-line automation.

Documentation

Index

• func Files(filter string, pathPatterns []string) []string
• func LongestFixedPart(pattern string) string
• func Replace(line, oldPattern, newPattern string) (string, bool)

Functions

func Files

func Files(filter string, pathPatterns []string) []string

Files searches for files matching the path patterns, where '**' is any number of folders and '*' is any substring. A file only has to match one of the patterns. If no patterns are given then all files under the current folder that contain the filter substring are taken.

Note: filter matching uses 'git grep' so only files that are added to git can be found by that method.

func LongestFixedPart

func LongestFixedPart(pattern string) string

LongestFixedPart gives the longest substring not containing any wildcards.

func Replace

func Replace(line, oldPattern, newPattern string) (string, bool)

Replace searches for oldPattern in line and replaces it with newPattern. '*' counts as wildcards in the patterns.

If the line was modified then it will be returned along with true, otherwise false will be returned and the string will be empty.