Bug 269275

Given the following text where the whitespace between words is a single tab character.

one	two	three
four	five	six
seven	eight	nine

Let's imagine we want to replace this with:

   update some_table set val1 = '#col3' where key1 = '#col1' and key2 = '#col3'

where the '#colN' refers to the column in the above text.

A valid expression would be:

    ^([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)$

However, when this is used the replaced text becomes:

update code_mstr set code_cmmt = 'three' where code_fldname = 'one' and code_value = 'two';update code_mstr set code_cmmt = 'six' where code_fldname = '
four' and code_value = 'five';update code_mstr set code_cmmt = 'nine
' where code_fldname = '
seven' and code_value = 'eight';

Which is because the replacement is being greedy and spanning several lines.

If we change the search pattern to be:

    ^(.*)\t(.*)\t(.*)$

The replacement becomes:

update code_mstr set code_cmmt = 'three' where code_fldname = 'one' and code_value = 'two';
update code_mstr set code_cmmt = 'six' where code_fldname = 'four' and code_value = 'five';
update code_mstr set code_cmmt = 'nine' where code_fldname = 'seven' and code_value = 'eight';

Which is correct, however; these two expressions have different greedy treatment which is confusing and seemingly unpredictable.


Version:

I'm unable to get the latest dev build as it seems the download links on bits.netbeans.org are not available.


Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201610110002)
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