Add spaces around brackets in multiple files in Sublime Text 3

Question

I'm wondering if it's possible to do a search and replace in Sublime Text 3 to add spaces around brackets in multiple files.

For example, I need to convert this in multiple files:

$var = function($par1, $par2);

to:

$var = function( $par1, $par2 );

Any ideas? If so, how can I do it?

Thanks in advance

You can use Regex expressions in find and replace. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25525939/difficulties-with-adding-spaces-around-equal-signs-using-regular-expressions-wit — the_storyteller, Sep 15 '17 at 19:04

leemon · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-17T12:12:40.857

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After some fiddling around, I managed to come up with a regex to add spaces around brackets:

Find: \((.*?)\)
Replace: ( $1 )

UPDATE: The following regex is more precise because it matches ($var) but not ( $var ) nor ():

Find: \((?!\s)([^()]+)(?<!\s)\)
Replace: ( $1 )

edited Sep 17 '17 at 12:12

answered Sep 17 '17 at 10:04

leemon

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