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replace_in_file() failed on Windows

See original GitHub issue

See: https://github.com/inexorgame/inexor-core/issues/589

If the searched string is multi-line, replace_in_file(file_path, search, replace, strict=True) will fail on Windows.

tools.replace_in_file(cmake_name, '''  11111
    2222''', '''  3333''')

ConanException: replace_in_file didn't find pattern

The reason is “\r\n” and “\n” mismatch.

λ conan --version
Conan version 1.2.1

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Created 5 years ago
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HassanNawazish1commented, Aug 16, 2021

Thanks. I was using the “PROJECT” instead of “project”. It worked now.

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lasotecommented, Apr 7, 2018

Yes, the replace_in_file is literally looking for the string so a \n != \r\n. Try to replace line by line doing two “replace_in_file” or build a string to be replaced with os.linesep, something like:

tools.replace_in_file(cmake_name, ''' 11111%s 2222''' % os.linesep, ''' 3333''')

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