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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Towel Off

Brendon Butler
Brendon Butler
4,254 Points

Impossible Question?

Did you know that you can use IntelliJ to check your Regular Expressions?

After highlighting a regular expression choose "Edit RegExp ___" to launch a scratchpad.

I have no idea what I would put after this. I don't think it's something that was gone over in the course, unless it was just something that I missed.

I've gotten this far without any help, but some of these quizzes are just ridiculous.

1 Answer

Hi Brendon,

The quiz question does state: "Use Help to find instructions, and then fill in this sentence:"

So you probably didn't miss anything in the videos. I think this question is mostly about being able to look something up in the help files.

I searched for regexp in the Help Topics and found this page: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/regular-expression-syntax-reference.html?search=regexp

The "Tips and Tricks" section at the bottom should give you the answer you're looking for.

Brendon Butler
Brendon Butler
4,254 Points

Thanks. I Did all kinds of research and even stumbled upon that page. I don't know how I missed that obvious answer staring me in the face. When I typed "Edit RegExp" in the Find Action tool under Help, It gave me a few responses, but nothing along the lines of that answer. Thanks again! :D