Replace Text in File with Regex not working

[jstarbird_7831]

I've got the following:

    Replace-Text
    (
        Include: clist.txt,
        Directory: $filePath,
        SearchText: ^IDString=.+$,
        ReplaceWith: IDString=$newVal,
        Regex: true
    );

While I get no errors the file is not getting updated. I've tried several variations on the regex without success.

Product: BuildMaster
Version: 5.8.3

[thoven]

With the ^ and $, that would mean the entire contents of the file must be IDString=whatever, is that the case here? If there is anything before or after that text it would never match.

[jstarbird_7831]

Tod,
understood. I did misuse that part, however, it does not like the .+ part even by itself.
What I am trying to do is allow for a line that could have any character type after the = sign. I'm just doing a lazy way of going thru an INI file that does not have any dupe key names.

thanks

[Guest]

I'm not really a RegEx expert, but what you're describing should work. Without seeing the input, it's difficult to say.

I use http://regexstorm.net/tester to test it every now and then, since we use the .NET RegEx engine, so it might be helpful to make a test case in there first.

FYI: you can see exactly how the code uses regex, it's quite simple: https://github.com/Inedo/inedox-inedocore/blob/master/InedoCore/Common/Operations/Files/ReplaceFileTextOperation.cs

Can you share something that appears to work on RegExStorm , but not in the OtterScript plan? And then share the OtterScript plan?