I recently needed to perform a refactor which involved re-namespacing several classes (where several is more like a shit tonne). I've had to do this before and was not looking forward to the mind numbing manual task ahead.
I know just enough regex to know that I don't know regex, and I have played with capture groups before (...Splunk...). I've known about the regex search function in Sublime Text for a while, but was not game enough to try regex find and replace. Until now!
So, lets say I have one "shit tonne" of classes all under the Example namespace:
Example::Shit
Example::Tonne
And I want to move all these classes into the Contrived namespace:
Example::Shit => Contrived::Example::Shit
Example::Tonne => Contrived::Example::Tonne
Here's the (find with regex) magic:
Find: (Example::[a-zA-Z]*)
Replace: Contrived::$1
