Intellij regex find and replace up to open parenthesis

Question

I want to use replacement groups in IntelliJ to find and replace all occurrences of: ``` SomeText( ``` with ``` SomeText = new TestThing("SomeText", ``` Where SomeText is the replacement group

Accepted Answer

Use capturing group.

Replace:

```
([A-Za-z]+)\(
```

- OR `^([A-Za-z]+)\(` if you want the text only match at the beginning of the lines

with:

```
$1 = new TestThing("$1",
```

According to the the documentation, JetBrains use `$n` form for backreference.

Intellij regex find and replace up to open parenthesis

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