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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Towel Off

Ralph Findling
Ralph Findling
5,270 Points

Can find help related to "Edit RegExp" in the IDE

I can't find anything in the IDE help documentation related to: After highlighting a regular expression choose "Edit RegExp" to launch a scratchpad. Has this changed since the lesson was produced?

Ralph Findling
Ralph Findling
5,270 Points

I eventually found the answer as Edit RegExp Fragments... not easy to find. The Help wasn't very helpful in finding it.

Ralph Findling
Ralph Findling
5,270 Points

I eventually found the answer as Edit RegExp Fragments... not easy to find. The Help wasn't very helpful in finding it.

4 Answers

Evangelos Meintasis
Evangelos Meintasis
7,287 Points

Fragments gives me wrong answer!!!

Josh Gold
Josh Gold
12,207 Points

Couldn't find that answer in IntelliJ either. I highlighted the regular expression in Template.java, but could not find where to choose "Edit RegExp".

The answer "fragments" worked for me. Not sure if this is case sensitive answer or not. And unfortunately I never did find where to select "edit regexp" so I could learn how to use this feature.

Ed Eden
Ed Eden
3,518 Points

Reading through the 'regular expression syntax reference' (I think Matt linked, above) and following it down to the Tips & Tricks section will give you the answer :).

Shane May
Shane May
5,114 Points

fragment with no s is the answer. Really hard to find!