Support for elision in if statement?

[rsperl]

I'm trying to update the expressions in an if statement, but I'm not sure if this is supported.

I have code where the struct A has a bool property and an if statements with multiple expressions:

type A struct {
    Value: bool
}

a := A{}

if test1 && test2 && a.Value {
// do the thing
}

But Value is now a pointer to a bool, so the if statements should be transformed to

if test1 && test2 && a.Value != nil && *a.Value {
// do the thing
}

This does not match:

@@
var a identifier
@@
-if ... && a.Value
+if ... && a.Value != nil && *a.Value

but insteads gives the error

load patch "bool_to_pointer.patch": parse: bool_to_pointer.patch/5.minus.augmented:4:1: expected operand, found '}'

If this is supported, can you point me in the right direction?