RegexReplace Build/Release Task

A task for replacing REGULAR EXPRESSIONS in your files with variables and text in build and release pipelines.

Supported Platforms

• Azure DevOps - Pipelines
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 and higher (How to install extensions in TFS)
• Only Windows - sorry, this is due to the lack of Powershell support of the underlying task FX platform :-(

Usage

1. Add the RegEx Find & Replace task to your build or release pipeline.

2. Configure the parameters

Parameters:

• Search Paths to Input Files:
  • The search patterns to the files that should used in Find & Replace
  • New in v3: Supports multiple input lines and minimatching
• Find RegEx:

  • The Regular Expression to FIND text

  • RegEx Groups (brackets) are used for the replace option

  • E.g. find all XML/HTML comments

        <!-- (.*) -->
    

• Replace With:

  • The text to replace with

  • $1 is the first group, $2 the second, ...

  • E.g. replace them with what was within the comment (comment it IN)

        $1
    

• New in v3: UseRAW (default true):
  • Whether to use RAW file read mode (might help with replace issues, such as newline)
• New in v3: UseUTF8 (default true):
  • Whether to read the file in UTF8 (otherwise in ASCII)

License

Now published under MIT License.