a specific regex search-and-replace

[ky438]

I have a file with a few 10000s of strings that match cp[0-9]+ (i.e. "cp" followed immediately by a number with one or more digits)

I want to change these to have the number in square brackets, e.g. I'd like cp36 to become cp[36].

What is the simplest way to do this in Helix?

From what I've found by searching, the "usual" way of selecting with the regex cp[0-9]+ correctly selects all the relevant expressions, but I'm not sure what the correct way of adding brackets is, given that the numbers are of different lengths. (There would be no problem with the "multiple cursor" technique if all the matches were the same length.)

In another editor, this is just a regular expression replacement cp([0-9]+) -> cp\[\0\]

[nik-rev]

I have a file with a few 10000s of strings that match cp[0-9]+ (i.e. "cp" followed immediately by a number with one or more digits)

I want to change these to have the number in square brackets, e.g. I'd like cp36 to become cp[36].

What is the simplest way to do this in Helix?

From what I've found by searching, the "usual" way of selecting with the regex cp[0-9]+ correctly selects all the relevant expressions, but I'm not sure what the correct way of adding brackets is, given that the numbers are of different lengths. (There would be no problem with the "multiple cursor" technique if all the matches were the same length.)

In another editor, this is just a regular expression replacement cp([0-9]+) -> cp\[\0\]

Right, so you select all cp(\d+), then press s, then select \d+ again. This will select all consecutive digits in your cp-digits selection. Now you can use ms[ to surround each number with a pair of square brackets