I'd like to add a suffix to all occurrences of a variable in a file (eg. pluralizing a variable number --> numbers).
VSCode offers a multiselect option thru the default "cmd+d", or editor.action.addSelectionToNextFindMatch. However, after I do this over all occurrences of number, the entire variable is selected. I really just need the cursor to be at the very end, so I can add an s. I would like not have to retype numbers.
How can I achieve this?
As an alternative, I use a regex:
\b(var1|var2|var3)\b
And I replace it with the same content $1 (since I capture the variable name in a group with ()) followed by 's': $1s
I would just copy the variable first. So:
Double-click your variable and Ctrl-C
Ctrl-F2 selects all occurences
Ctrl-V and add your 's'
The regex method is better if you have a few variables to change, but not if you have only one or two to change. Really simple to create a macro if you would be doing this a lot - you could get it down to a single keychord.
[This unfortunately selects occurrences of var1 and someOtherVar1 (the Var1 part) - so if this is a problem better to use a regex as it is easier to exclude instances of the var1 term appearing within another word, like someVar1 that you do not intend to change.]
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I have a text file.
There are hundreds of different filenames in the text file.
However, it says different date and time at the end of each file.
Sample: life-in-cosmos-2021-11-11-12-45-46 or life-in-cosmos-2021-11-11-12-45.
In order to change the names of the files in bulk, I first need to delete the dates in this text file.
So I want to automatically delete the dates and times in each row.
However, I don't know anything about this.
And I don't know how to use macros.
Therefore, if there is a solution for this, can you provide an answer with a picture or video?
In order to explain my request more clearly, I present 2 examples.
Example:
Original Text: cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC-2020-09-11
The result I want to do: cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC
Example 2:
Original Text: cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC-2021-04-02-12-37-49-utc
The result I want to do: cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC
Assuming a date is always at end of each line, you can replace a regular expression with an empty string. To do this:
Press Ctrl+H to bring up the Replace dialog box, and set following options:
Find: -[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}[0-9\-]*?(\-utc){0,1}$
Replace with: (blank)
Set the Regular Expressions option
First, click the Find Next button to highlight matches to make sure they are correct. If the matches are incorrect, you will need to adjust the regular expression.
Finally, click the Replace All button to remove all matched strings.
Before replace
cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC-2020-09-11
cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC-2021-04-02-12-37-49-utc
After replace
cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC
cosmos-lights-colors-T5DAPC
When double-clicking a number:
100%: selects "100" (good)
100px: selects "100px" (bad)
To more rapidly change number values, it would be great if VS Code could ignore units of measure when double-clicking a number like it does with symbols.
This seems like a feature that would be part of Editor: Word Separators, but it looks like you can only add single characters to the list.
Does anyone know if it's possible to change this? Thanks!
With the extension Select By you can specify with an regular expression what you consider a "word" and with a keybinding you are faster than using the mouse in selecting.
Use the surround property, see the link.
Having trouble finding a way to do this, maybe it is not even possible?
In my case, for testing flow of if-statements/user-interaction, am temporarily adding 40 lines of console.log('trigger-fired-1'); throughout our code.
However, to tell them apart would like each to end with a different number, so in this case, numbers one to forty like so:
In the screen recorded gif, to replicate what I am going for, all I did was copy/paste the numbers one to nine. What I really would like is a shortcut key to generate those numbers at the end for me to eliminate that step of typing out each unique number.
Am primarily coding in Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text, and in some cases shortcuts are similar, or at least have same support but for different shortcut keys.
There are a few extensions that allow you to do this:
Text Pastry
Increment Selection
NumberMonger
For Sublime Text, the solution to this problem is the internal Arithmetic command. Something similar may or may not be available in VS Code (possibly with an extension of some sort) but I'm not familiar enough with it to say for sure.
This command allows you to provide an expression of some sort to apply to all of the cursor locations and/or selected text.
By way of demonstration, here's the example you outlined above:
The expression you provide is evaluated once for every selection/caret in the buffer at the time, and the result of the expression is inserted into the buffer (or in the case of selected text, it replaces the selection). Note also that when you invoke this command from the input panel (as in the screen recording) the panel shows you a preview of what the expression output is going to be.
The special variable i references the selection number; selections are numbered starting at 0, so the expression i + 1 has the effect of inserting the selection numbers starting at 1 instead of 0.
The special variable x refers to the text in a particular selection instead. That allows you to select some text and then transform it based on your expression. An example would be to use x * 2 immediately after the above example (make sure all of the selections are still present and wrapping the numbers) to double everything.
You can use both variables at once if you like, as well as anything in the Python math library, for example math.sqrt(i) if you want some really esoteric logs.
The example above shows the command being selected from the command palette interactively, where the expression automatically defaults to the one that you want for your example (i + 1).
If you want to have this as a key binding, you can bind a key to the arithmetic command and provide the expression directly. For example:
{
"keys": ["super+a"],
"command": "arithmetic",
"args": {
"expr": "i+1"
},
},
Try this one ...
its not like sublime
but works g
https://github.com/kuone314/VSCodeExtensionInsertSequence
How would one go about using replace in netbeans to modify a PHP script with lots of $_POST[].
For better security it would be a good idea to replace all these $_POST[]
with sanitize($_POST[]) where sanitize is a function that sanitizes user input.
So I could use Replace and search for $_POST[''] and replace with sanitize($_POST['']).
But how do you keep the variable name within each $_POST[''] while adding the closing parenthesis?
For example $_POST['name'] and $_POST['action'] need to become sanitize($_POST['name']) and santize($_POST['action']) respectively.
I am not a PHP programmer or a Regex master but in my very limited test this seemed to work.
Select the project and then choose Edit -> Replace. Choose "Regular Expression" in the drop down list, set containing text to \$_POST\[(.*)\]and replace with to sanitize(\$_POST[$1])
I have a Word document with fields of the reference variety, which occur in the form "[field].[field]"--in other words, there's a period between the two fields. I want to globally replace this with a space.
Word offers the ^d special character to search for fields, but for some reason the query "^d.^d" does not find anything. However, ".^d" does. Now comes the problem, however--what do I specify as the replacement text in order to retain the field code? If using regular expressions, I could use a "Find What Expression" such as \1, but with regexp ("wild card") mode the ^d is not permitted.
I guess I could write a macro...
I would like to add to Bibadia's solution.
An example of an index entry field; we want to change a name we misspelled.
Make sure hidden formatting is displayed (toggle with SHIFT+CTRL+F8).
Make sure wildcards option is not selected. To search for fields, use the opening and closing field braces code (optionally use ^w for spaces, as Bibadia suggested):^19 XE "Deo, John" ^21
Replace won't recognize field braces character, but will allow to insert the clipboard's content. ;). To do that, insert in text the correct entry. CTRL+F9 to insert field and type:XE "Doe, John"
Select the field above and copy
Use ^c in the replace box
Hit Replace All
Ta-da!
It's usually better to go the macro route when finding fields because, as you say, the find algorithm that Word uses doesn't work the way you might hope with fields.
But if you know exactly what the fields contain, you can specify a search pattern that will probably work (however not in wildcard mode).
For example, if you want to look for figure number field pairs such as
{ STYLEREF 1 \s }.{ SEQ Figure \* ARABIC \s 1 }
(which would typically be the same set of fields everywhere in the document)
If you only really need to look for the following:
{ STYLEREF 1 \s }.<any field>
you could ensure that field codes are displayed and search for
^d STYLEREF 1 \s ^21.^d
or
^19 STYLEREF 1 \s ^21.^19
If you need to be more precise, you can spell out the second field as well.
"^d" only works for finding the field beginning, not the field end.
It's a shame that ^w wants to find at least 1 whitespace character because otherwise it would be more robust to look for
^19^wSTYLEREF^w1^w\s^w^21.^19
Perhaps someone else knows how to work around that without using wildcards?
Torzaburo,
I suggest that you do this using a macro. You can start by recording the macro, and later refining your processing steps within the macro.
First turn on the hidden characters by navigating to Home > Paragraph > toggle the show/hide Paragraph symbol. Also, select all and toggle the field codes on (right-click and select "Toggle Field Codes".
Open a new blank Word doc in addition to the one you have open. You will use this later. Start the macro recording and find the field using the "^d" (field code) as you said.
When the field is found, copy only the field text within the brackets, and not the full field reference. While the macro is still recording, ALT + TAB to the new blank document and paste the field code in as plain text.
At this point, do the necessary find & replace processing to the field codes. Highlight the processed field codes, copy, ALT + TAB back to the original document, and paste back between the { } brackets.
Stop the macro recording. Add any further custom processing to the macro VBA.
Select-All and re-toggle the field codes. Update the field codes.
You don't need a macro. Just toggle all field codes on by using Alt+F9. Then do a find and replace for what you want to change. Once the replacement is complete, use Alt+F9 again to toggle the field codes back off.
Disclaimer: I didn't originate this solution, but it's clean and elegant and I thought it should be included here:
(Adapted from Search & Replace Field Codes in Word):
Create or find a single instance of the field you want to convert text to
Toggle Field Codes visible (AltF9)
Copy the code for the field you want to use to the Clipboard (highlight and CtrlC)
Open the Replace dialog box (CtrlH), insert the text you want to replace in the Find What box and then enter ^c in the Replace With box.
This will replace your text with the contents of the Clipboard, turning it into the field code you copied in step 3. It also copies formatting information (font, color, etc.), to control how the field will appear when hidden. (Caveat: I've tested this with Word 2003 under Windows 7 only.)
Coming in late on this, probably way too late for Beth (sorry Beth). And this may not be quite what Beth was looking for. But for anyone interested ...
It sounds like Beth may have created captions throughout the document using INSERT CAPTION (hence the presence of field codes). This means these captions will have been (automatically) created in CAPTION style.
To globally replace the separator "." with " " (space) in such captions, take two steps:
[1] Go to REFERENCES | INSERT CAPTION, then click on NUMBERING and replace the SEPARATOR "." with "EM-DASH". This will replace all separators in captions for the selected label in the CAPTION Window. If you have other labels in use in the document (e.g. FIGURE), select the other labels one by one and repeat this process.
[2] Do a find/replace searching for special character "em-dash" (^+) in style CAPTION, replacing with " ". Click REPLACE ALL.
Voila!
NOTE: This presumes that em-dash does not appear in the caption text anywhere. If it does, then you'll need to do a pre- and post- "fiddle" to ensure these em-dashes are not touched by the global replace above.
The "pre-fiddle" is to do a global find/replace across captions, replacing the em-dash ("^+") with some other string (e.g. "EM-DASH") that doesn't ever occur in any caption's text. Then you do the separator change as described above. Finally, the "post-fiddle" is to restore the em-dashes that were in the captions, by doing a global replace of the string "EM-DASH" with the actual em-dash character "^+".