get specific string after first occurance of string regex sublime text 2 find & replace

Question

include_once($pathToRoot.'header.php');  
echo('</div>');

assume you have variations on the above code across hundreds of files, how do you match against the first occurrence of

</div>

after

header.php'

?

Teddy Bo · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-12 17:10:04Z

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In the find field: (?s)(header\.php'.+?)</div>

In the replace (if you what to replace </div> with </test>): $1</test>

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rekire · Answer 2 · 2013-06-12 17:02:39Z

I don't know that sublimetext2 but the regular expression would look like this:

/include_once\($pathToRoot.'header.php'\);(.*?)(<\/div>)/s

The first group would be the string between the include and the closing div and the second group would be the closing div itself.

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