I'm attempting to do some massive search and replaces in Xcode, but it's not working out. My search is #include <\S+> and I want to replace the <> with "". I've tried #include "\1" as the replacement text but then I just get #include "" in my file. I tried doing #include "\0" as the replace but then I just get the whole line that search found inside the quotes. How can I just get the file out of the search to replace the <>'s with ""'s?

you cant put any regex in the replace field, use sed instead.

Thanks for the tip. I've written a small script that does this pretty well:


Is there any way to make it so that I can just pass all header files and .cpp files to the script and have it work? It currently doesn't seem to like me trying this:


But the script works perfect if I just call ./ReplaceIncludes test.h. Any ideas?

You can use regular expressions in TextWrangler (free), and do a search & replace on multiple files/folders.

unknown Wrote:you cant put any regex in the replace field, use sed instead.

After playing with sed and reading more about the regular expressions, I can in fact accomplish this in Xcode. For the search I used to just have:

#include <\S+>

and replace with

#include "\1">

but all I got was

#include "".

To fix this I changed the search to using parenthesis like this:

#include <(\S+)>

and then it worked perfectly.