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Harlequin
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x:Uid="XXXXX"

I want to remove all these tags from a Xaml file. Is there a regex I can use to take them all out? XXXXX can be anything. And note a space before the x.

ktr
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Regex:

\s+x:Uid=\"[^\"]+\"

in C#:

var regex = "\\s+x:Uid=\\\"[^\\\"]+\\\"";

... try that

Edit: Updated regex.

Harlequin
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In reply to ktr

#Aug 14th @ 2:12 PM

Unknown operator on the :

Might need an escape or something?

ktr
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In reply to Harlequin

#Aug 14th @ 3:45 PM

Hmm.. that is strange. That is definitely the right expression. It works with C#'s regex engine and Javascript's engine too. I tried using it in VS2008's find dialog and I got the same error. I don't know how to fix that. I think they have some custom searches you can perform that are prefixed with a colon. That kind of botches the regex functionality...

ktr
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In reply to ktr

#Aug 14th @ 8:06 PM

Ok.. i finally figured it out... VS has a different syntax for finding whitespace (:Wh). Anyway, here it is (this will only work in the find dialog):

:Whx\:Uid="([^"]|:Wh)*"