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I have a fair number of PHP classes source files that I can list using the command grep -r "class " * with each file containing the class <MyClass> pattern.

For example, one such file contains:

<?php

class NavlinkItem {


var $id;
  var $name;
  var $description;
  var $image;
  var $imageOver;
  var $url;
  var $blankTarget;
  var $language;
  var $templateModelId;
  var $navlinkId;


function NavlinkItem($id = '') {
  }

I would like to replace the function NavlinkItem pattern by the function __construct pattern.

The NavlinkItem pattern can be derived from the actual name of the system/navlink/NavlinkItem.php source file and I can get the it with expand('%:t:r')

I can store the NavlinkItem pattern in an a register let @a = expand('%:t:r')

I want to do a replace on the content of that register:

execute 's/function ' . getreg('a') . '/function __construct/'

The pattern seems to be found as it is highlighted in yellow.

But the command still errors and shows the E486: Pattern not found: function NavlinkItem message.

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Stephane
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You need to use % symbol at the start of the regex if the whole document should be searched, rather than just the current line.

So execute '%s/function ' . getreg('a') . '/function __construct/' should work.

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