In VS Code I'm using the extension Replace Rules.
In settings I'm hoping to use this regex to replace any finds with their uppercase versions:
"replacerules.rules": {
"uppcase all keywords": {
"flags": "i",
"find": "(?<!\\w)(create|select|sum||drop|table|if|exists|day|group|by|order|min|max|and|else|iif|end|over|partition|distinct|desc)(?!\\w)",
"replace": "\\U$1"
}
The flag is working ok as is the Find but the replace is not changing the first captured group to Uppercase - why?
Edit
Wiktor has given the reason - that Javascript does not support this functionality in the replace clause.
If this extension will not do what I require is there a way I can save this regex for use through the command palate in VS Code?
First, a snippet approach:
{
"key": "alt+u", // whatever keybinding you want
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorTextFocus",
"args": {
"snippet": "${TM_SELECTED_TEXT/(?<!\\w)(create|select|sum|drop|table|if|exists|day|group|by|order|min|max|and|else|iif|end|over|partition|distinct|desc)(?!\\w)/${1:/upcase}/g}",
}
}
Snippets can transform to upper case: ${1:/upcase} means upcase the 1st capture group.
But for this to work the text you want to transform must be selected. You can simply select the entire document Ctrl+A and then trigger the snippet. You could combine those operations into a macro if you wish.
You could also make that into a snippet in a snippet file and then insert it through the Command Palette command Insert Snippet (which unfortunately seems to only filter by prefix not description - although it does show the description).
Extension demo:
This extension version uses your Search (across files) functionality, but you can limit it to the current file. Using this Search route you must accept the replacement dialog, there is no way to avoid that. But it gives you a nice command in the Command Palette Find-Transform:<your command title here> that could also be bound to a keybinding.
Or you can use its find in the current file and replace functionality - which will just perform the changes immediately.
Either way you can save these commands with search/replace regex's that support the case modifiers \\U, \\u, \\L and \\l in conjunction with capture groups of course in the replace value.
Find and Transform is the extension.
Related
We have an old, grown project with thousands of php files and need to clean it up.
Throughout the whole project we do have a lot of function calls similar to:
trans('somestring1');
trans("SomeString2");
trans('more_string',$somevar);
trans("anotherstring4",$somevar);
trans($tx_key);
trans($anotherKey,$somevar);
All of those are embedded into the code and represent translation keys. I would like to find a way to extract all "translation keys" in all occurrences.
The PHP project is in VS Code, so a RegEx Search would be helpful to list the results.
Or I could search through the project with any other tool you would recommend
However I would also need to "export" just the strings to a textfile or similar.
The ideal result would be:
somestring1
SomeString2
more_string
anotherstring4
$tx_key
$anotherKey
As a bonus - if someone knows, how I could get the above list including filename where the result has been found - that would be really fantastic!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Update:
The RegEx I came up with:
/(trans)+\([^\)]*\)(\.[^\)]*\))?/gim
list the full occurrence - How can I just get the first part of the result (between Single Quotes OR between Double Quotes OR beginning with $)
See here: regexr.com/548d4
Here are some steps to get exactly what you want. Using this you can do a find and replace on your search results!
So you could do sequential regex find/replaces in the right circumstances.
The replace can be just within the search results editor and not affect the underlying files at all - which is what you want.
You can also have the replace action actually edit the underlying files if you wish.
[Hint: This technique can also make doing a find item a / replace with b in files that contain term c much easier to do.]
(1) Open a new search editor: Ctrl+Shift+P
(That command is currently unbound to a keybinding.)
(2) Paste this regex into the Search input box (with the regex option .* selected):
`(.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]+)(.*)` - a relatively simple regex
regex101 demo
See my other answer for a regex to work with up to 6 entries per line:
(\s*\d+:\s)?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*)((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?)(.*)
(3) You will get a list of files with the search results. Now open a Find widget Shift+F in this Search editor.
(4) Put the same regex into that Find input. Regex option selected. Put $3 into the Replace field. This only replaces in this Search editor - not the original files (although that can be done if you want it in some case). Replace All.
If using the 1-6 version regex, replace with:
$1$5 $9 $13 $17 $21 $25
(5) Voila. You can now save this Search Editor as a file.
The first answer works for one desired capture per line as in the original question. But that relatively simple regex won't work if there are two or more per line.
The regex below works for up to 6 entries per line, like
trans('somestring1');
stuff trans("SomeString2"); some content trans("SomeString2a");more stuff [repeat, repeat]
But it doesn't for 7+ - you'll need a regex guru for that.
Here is the process again with a twist of using a snippet in the Search Editor instead of a Find/Replace. Using a snippet allows more control over the formatting of the final result.
(1) Open a new search editor: Ctrl+Shift+P (That command is currently unbound to a keybinding.)
(2) Paste this regex into the Search input box (with the regex option .* selected):
`((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*)((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?((.*?)(\btrans\(['"]?)([^,'")]*))?)(.*)`
regex101 demo
(3) You will get a list of files with the search results. Now select all your results individually with Ctrl+Shift+L.
(4) Trigger this keybinding:
{
"key": "alt+i", // whatever keybinding you like
"command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
"when": "editorTextFocus",
"args": {
"snippet": "${TM_SELECTED_TEXT/((.*?)(\\btrans\\([\\'\\\"]?)([^,\\'\\\")]*)((.*?)(\\btrans\\([\\'\\\"]?)([^,\\'\\\")]*))?((.*?)(\\btrans\\([\\'\\\"]?)([^,\\'\\\")]*))?((.*?)(\\btrans\\([\\'\\\"]?)([^,\\'\\\")]*))?((.*?)(\\btrans\\([\\'\\\"]?)([^,\\'\\\")]*))?((.*?)(\\btrans\\([\\'\\\"]?)([^,\\'\\\")]*))?)(.*)/$4${8:+\n }$8${12:+\n }$12${16:+\n }$16${20:+\n }$20${24:+\n }$24/g}"
}
},
That snippet will be applied to each selection in your search result. This part ${8:+\n } is a conditional which adds a newline and some spaces if there is a capture group 8 - which would be a second trans(...) on a line.
Demo: (unfortunately, it doesn't properly show the Ctrl+Shift+L selecting all lines individually or the Alt+i snippet trigger)
Suppose I search on VS Code the terms 'word1 word2'. Then it finds all the occurrences where 'word1' is followed by 'word2'. In reality I want to find all the files where word1 and word2 occur, but they don't have to be consecutive. How can I do it?
Use regex flag and search for (word1[\s\S\n]*word2)|(word2[\s\S\n]*word1)
Made a small extension based on #tonix regex:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=usernamehw.search
Here is also a simple way for simple needs - use this as regex
(word1)|(word2)|(word3)
It may not cover some cases, but has been working fine for me, and easy to remember to type it in.
VSCode has an open issue to support multiple searches. You may want to get on there and push them a little.
To apply logical and
(?=.*word1)(?=.*word2)(?=.*word3)
To apply logical or
(word1)|(word2)|(word3)
For you guys,
if you want to search for multiple words (more than 2) at once in a single file and all the words must appear in the file at least once (logical AND), you can use the following regex which leverages lookahead assertions:
^(?=[\s\S\n]*(word1))(?=[\s\S\n]*(word2))(?=[\s\S\n]*(word3))(?=[\s\S\n]*(word4))[\s\S\n]*$
A global search with this pattern will only return all the files that contain word1 AND word2 AND word3 AND word4 in any order (e.g. word4 may appear at the beginning and/or word2 may appear at the end of the file).
I also wrote a little Python CLI helper which creates the regex automatically for you given the patterns you want to AND (though creating the regex by hand is pretty straightforward).
Copy the following code, paste it in a new file and save it somewhere on your machine (I've called it regex_and_lookahead.py). Then make the file executable with chmod +x ./regex_and_lookahead.py (important, I used Python 3.6, the literal prefix f -> f'(?=[\s\S\\n]*({arg}))' won't work in previous versions):
#!/usr/bin/env python
from sys import argv
args = argv[1:]
regex = '^'
for arg in args:
regex += f'(?=[\s\S\\n]*({arg}))'
regex += '[\s\S\\n]*$'
print(regex)
Usage:
./regex_and_lookahead.py word1 word2 word3 word4
Will generate the above regex. You can also use it to generate more complex regexes cause each parameter can have regex characters in it!
As an example:
./regex_and_lookahead.py "pattern with space" "option1|option2" "\bword3\b" "(repeated pattern\.){6}"
Will generate the following regex:
^(?=[\s\S\n]*(pattern with space))(?=[\s\S\n]*(option1|option2))(?=[\s\S\n]*(\bword3\b))(?=[\s\S\n]*((repeated pattern\.){6}))[\s\S\n]*$
Which will match a file if and only if all of the following conditions are true:
There's at least one occurrence of the string pattern with space;
There's at least one occurrence of either option1 or option2;
There's at least one occurrence of the word word3 delimited by word boundary assertions;
There is at least one occurrence of the string repeated pattern. repeated 6 times (i.e.: repeated pattern.repeated pattern.repeated pattern.repeated pattern.repeated pattern.repeated pattern.).
As you can see, the sky is the only limit. Have fun!
This is now supported, you can search for the term then open in editor and use ctrl + f to search the search results thanks #pushkin
This extension: Find and Transform, I am the author, makes it quite easy to do any number of sequential searches across files only using the files from previous search results for future searches.
There is a variable ${resultsFiles} that resolves to those previous search results files and can be used in the "filesToInclude" argument. Here is a sample keybinding
{
"key": "alt+b",
"command": "runInSearchPanel",
"args": {
"find": ["first", "second"],
"delay": 2000, // necessary to allow results to populate
// delay may need to be longer if you are searching a lot of files
"replace": ["", "knuckles"], // optional
"filesToInclude": ["", "${resultsFiles}"],
"filesToExclude": "Users\\Mark\\AppData\\Roaming\\Code\\User\\keybindings.json",
"isRegex": true,
// so that the first search will be triggered and produce results
"triggerSearch": true,
"triggerReplaceAll": [false, true] // optional
}
}
"find": ["first", "second"], : search for first and then search for second
"filesToInclude": ["", "${resultsFiles}"], : clear the filesToInclude on the first search, on second search use the resultFiles from the first search
You can do as many sequential searches as you like
The finds can be regex's and as complex as you wish
The original question asked to do a single search for files containing two separate words in the same file. Below is what I do to search for two (or more) words in the same file by using multiple searches.:
Search Like you normally do
Click on "Open in editor"
Adjust the context line count. (The higher the context count the more you can search for that second term, but the more non relevant searches you bring in)
Hit Cmd + F (or equivalent if not on mac) and search there. In the image below I have narrowed it down to 53 hits. I can manually skip through until I find it.
Need even more Fine tuning?
Same Steps as 1 - 3
Copy the contents to a file. (In the image below I saved it to a file called haystack.ts)
Search there for a third word. (In the image below I have now narrowed it down to 7 searches.)
Try Open new Search Editor command, through command pallete, You can map it to any keybinding you'd like in the Keybindings Editor. I mapped to cmd+shift+i
This is helpful for me!There is one more way, using up/ down arrow key in search editor, moves us across our search history, even this is useful,
It needs a little bent of mind to accept that it is equivalent to having multiple search editors (what IntelliJ etc provides) but without persistence!
More than often I find that I need some custom regex for me in visual studio code.
Every time I use stackoverflow search to find the same regex rather than trying to rewrite it again and again. Now I am having a separate text note only for that purpose which contains my find/replace regex values.
e.g.remove duplicates
Is there a custom smart plugin or option which allows me to add find / replace and give them names and save them (similar to ultra edit) directly in Visual Studio Code?
If there is a way to do the same in Visual Studio instead of code I am fine with it as well - I just need to be able to do find replaces quickly.
There are at least three extensions that can help you:
Find and Transform - which I wrote
replace rules
regreplace
They allow you to store and run (either singly or all on save) a list of regexp's find and replaces.
An example setting (in settings.json) from Find and Replace:
"findInCurrentFile": {
"addClassToElement": {
"title": "Add Class to Html Element", // will appear in the Command Palette
"find": ">",
"replace": " class=\"#\">",
"restrictFind": "selections",
"cursorMoveSelect": "#" // after the replacement, move to and select this text
}
}
An example keybinding(in keybindings.json) from Find and Replace:
{
"key": "alt+y",
"command": "findInCurrentFile", // note no setting command here
"args": {
"find": "^([ \\t]*const\\s*)(\\w*)", // note the double escaping
"replace": "$1\\U$2", // capitalize the word following "const"
"isRegex": true,
"restrictFind": "selections" // find only in selections
}
}
So you can save a find/replace or a search across files as a named setting or a keybinding.
i have a text file in a particular format..
!c_xyz|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyz
asdasda........................................................
asddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
!c_abc|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyz...
I need a regular expression to reformat this file using Find and Replace - Visual Studio. The Desc field value has overflowed onto next lines. i need to move them back to the actual line. Final string should be like
!c_xyz|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyzsdasda.........asdddddd..
!c_abc|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyz...
I need an RE for "desc=" followed by anything until the next ! symbol
find Desc=([^\|\r\n]+)[\r\n](([^!\r\n][^\r\n]+[\r\n])*), replace with Desc=\1\2 and repeat until every line starts with ! (you can test this using ^[^!] as a search expr which should find nothing).
alternatively find [\r\n]+, replace with the empty string. thereafter find !, replace with \r\n!. this suggestion has 2 drawbacks. it temporarily produces very long lines which your editor (notably vs) may or may not have difficulties with and processes descriptions containing ! incorrectly.
addendum:
your input seems to be fixed format up to the Desc section. if it is indeed, you can apply alternative #2, step 1, being followed by a search/replace run using (!.{53}\|Desc=)/[\r\n]\1.
As mentioned in the comments by #X3074861X, you can use Notepad++.
Input:
!c_xyz|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyz
asdasda........................................................
asddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
!c_abc|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyz...
For the find and replace, select the mode as Regular expression with the options as follows:
Find what: \r\n[^!]
Leave Replace with blank.
Output:
!c_xyz|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyzsdasda........................................................sddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
!c_abc|crby=112|crdate=12jun11|mdby=112|mddate=12jun11|Desc=xyz...
Screenshot:
In the Visual Studio 2010 "Productivity Power Tools" plugin (which is great), you can configure file tabs to be color coded based on regular expressions.
I have a RegEx to differentiate the tab color of Interface files (IMyInterface.cs) from regular .cs files:
[I]{1}[A-Z]{1}.*\.cs$
Unfortunately this also color codes any file that starts with a capital "I" (Information.cs, for example).
How could this RegEx be modified to only include files where the first letter is "I" and the second letter is not lowercase?
Your regexp should work as it is. It is possible that it is executed in ignore case mode. Try to disable that mode inside your regexp with (?-i):
(?-i)[I]{1}[A-Z]{1}.*\.cs$
Try this
"(?-i)^I[A-Z].*\.cs$"
Sets case insensitve off first.
Regular Expression Options
Filenames in Windows are not case-sensitive, so obviously Power Tools will be using case-insensitive matching.
How about this:
^I([A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*){1}\.cs$
so
IMyInterface.cs // matches, MyInterface
IB.cs // B
IBa.cs // Ba
IC1.cs // C1
I.cs // don't
Information.cs // don't
Prooflink
I based mine off the default patterns placed in there and used ^I[A-Z].*\.cs[ ]*(\[read only\])?$ - I think that there is a precedence question, though, so that if you leave the default .cs pattern matcher in there and add yours to the end, you might have yours hidden, because it matched the general one first.
And you can't re-order or delete them, so it's a little fiddly to get the ordering working well ...
FWIW, I don't think the case-sensitivity question ((?-i) makes any difference.