I tried to use Easy Pattern helper yesterday and ran into blank. I tried the Reference but while I could see the bits of what I wanted to do I couldn't work out how to srting them together.
I'm trying to change the header blocks in a whole bunch of about 500 php files. With plain text lines this works fine. Then I came to this:
-where the blue bit is variable. That I want to replace with this:// $Id: index.php,v 1.4 2004/05/16 14:04:19 greyhead Exp $
/**
I could find the string OK, but completely failed to get groups capture to work/**
// $Id: index.php,v 1.4 2004/05/16 14:04:19 greyhead Exp $
*

Bob