Replacement with empty string

[gpoore]

Thanks for creating ruplacer! It's been great for renaming variables across source files.

Is there a way to replace matches with the empty string? For example,

ruplacer "string" ""

fails with

error: The following required arguments were not provided:
    <replacement>

I've been working around this by just adding an empty capture group () and then replacing with '$1'.

[dmerejkowsky]

Sorry but I can't reproduce that bug here. What operating system and what kind of terminal are you using?

[gpoore]

I did some additional checking, and my issue is due to a longstanding bug in PowerShell:

• Powershell dropping empty string argument PowerShell/PowerShell#6280
• Use ArgumentList when invoking native executables PowerShell/PowerShell#14747

So Ruplacer is working correctly...and now I have to worry about shell bugs whenever something doesn't work as expected!