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ColdFusion to Sails.js Conversion : Find/Replace Tips/Tricks

Use your IDE of choice, I prefer Sublime Text because it uses the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) engine from the Boost library and I love me some regex. I will show examples for .js syntax, but if you need this in .ejs format just add <% to the beginning and %> to the end like in the first example below.  I always have the case sensitive button off in Sublime, so if you are using a different editor make sure you use the proper ignore case flag or you may get mixed results. These examples are meant to speed up the conversion, some additional refactoring may also be necessary. more to come...