replace "abc".equals(variable) by variable.equals("abc") in c# code

I maintain a c# project and i found many variable.Equals("abc") which are not compliant with best practice.

How to replace at once all these comparisons by these form : "abc".Equals(variable).

I use visual studio. I'm open with regex...

Thx a lot !

"abc".equals(variable) makes no difference to adherance to best practices

What you should be using is string.Equals(stringA, stringB, StringComparison.ChooseEnumHere)

This is always the ideal way to compare strings as the StringComparison enum allows you for finetuned control over case and culture sensitivity of the strings. Use of == or strA.Equals(strB) will always amount to an ordinal (case-sensitive and culture-insensitive) comparison between the strings. In the name of maintainability it is best to explicitly state what you comparison rules are

I highly recommend reading this bit of documentation to learn about how to go about properly comparing strings

To directly answer your question, if you want to replace every instance of something with something else, you can use CTRL+SHIFT+H, which will allow you to search and replace in a much wider scale then just the document or selection (which is what CTRL+H does). Just be wary that you don't kill some text that you didn't intend to replace

Using Regex :

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;


namespace ConsoleApplication52
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string input = @"variable.equals(""abc"") variable.equals(""def"") variable.equals(""ghi"")";

            string pattern = @"(^|\s)(?'key1'[^.]+).equals\((?'key2'[^\)]+)\)";
            Regex r = new Regex(pattern);

            MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(input, pattern);

            Program c = new Program();

            MatchEvaluator myEvaluator = new MatchEvaluator(c.ReplaceVariable);

            string results = r.Replace(input, myEvaluator);
 
        }
        public string ReplaceVariable(Match m)
        {
            return m.Groups["key2"].Value + ".equals(" + m.Groups["key1"].Value + ")"; 


        }
    }
 
}

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