Can Someone Help?

[BASHERS33]

Can someone please help me figure out how to replace all cases of:

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$this->something['word']

with

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$this->somethingelse('word')

where word is ANYTHING between the single quotes?

Someone made directions for doing it in another text editor. For that editor it worked, but that editor keeps freezing and apparently even gave me a virus. When I try the same expressions with textpade they don't work. They come up as having no results found.

Here is an example of what they have:
Search:

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 \$this->ipsclass->vars\[\'(.+?)\'\]

Replace:

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\$this->settings->getSetting('$1')

That does not work in textpad. What do I need to change?

Thanks

[ben_josephs]

Find what: \$this->something\['([^']+)'\]
Replace with: $this->somethingelse('\1')

[X] Regular expression

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For example,

Find what: \$this->ipsclass->vars\['([^']+)'\]
Replace with: $this->settings->getSetting('\1')

[X] Regular expression

Replace All

These assume you are using Posix regular expression syntax:

Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

TextPad does not give you viruses.