Using search and replace to rename a method

5 Dec 2011

It's easy to rename a method using Aba Search and Replace:

• enter the current and the new names,
• turn on the Match whole word and Match case modes,
• review the found occurrences;
• press the Replace button.

The name of a method, GetFileSize, collided with the name of a Win32 API function, so I wanted to replace it with GetSize. The later is also shorter and avoids the tautology: file.GetFileSize.

To find the references to my method, not to the Win32 API function, I added a dot (and -> in C++): .GetFileSize

In a PHP code, I replaced all calls to addslashes with sqlite_escape_string when porting my site to SQLite. The two functions escape quotes differently; addslashes should never be used in SQLite.

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