I try to create a simple regex-find and replace task in Visual Studio Code.
Currently I copy from the AD some Users to a temporary file in Visual Studio code and remove the "CN=" at the beginning of the line and all the aditional informations after the first "," (regex: ,.*$). This works fine with Find&Replace in VSCode but I have manually to type it in every time I want to remove this.
So the question is, is it possible to automate this kind of task? I know there are some external tools (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks) but I'm struggling to get it working...
Edit: Example requested (my regex is working, that's not the problem:/. I need an example how to automate this task... )
EXAMPLE
CN=Test User,OU=Benutzer,OU=TEST1,OU=Vert,OU=ES1,OU=HEADQUARTERS,DC=esg,DC=corp
Expected Output
Test User
Vscode has a nice feature when using the search tool, it can search using regular expressions. You can click cmd+f (on a Mac, or ctrl+f on windows) to open the search tool, and then click cmd+option+r to enable regex search. Using this, you can find duplicate consecutive words easily in any document.
How to enable VSCode regex replace. First, you need to press Ctrl + H on Windows and Linux, or ⌥⌘F on Mac to open up search and replace tool. In order to activate regex search and replace in VSCode, you have to click on the . * button near the input.
You can use the Find control in code or text windows, such as Output windows and Find Results windows, by selecting Edit > Find and Replace or pressing Ctrl+F.
This extension does the job:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=joekon.ssmacro#overview
It seems like the regex adheres to:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions
Create a file regex.json:
[{
"command": "ssmacro.replace",
"args": {
"info": "strip out EOL whitespace",
"find": "\\s+$",
"replace": "",
"all": true,
"reg": true,
"flag": "gm"
}
}]
"info"
is just a reminder, doesn't do anything.
Set a shortcut in keybindings.json:
"key": "ctrl+9",
"command": "ssmacro.macro", "args": {"path": "C:\\...\\regex.json"}
You can batch multiple commands together [{...},{...}]
which is useful for applying a whole set of regex operations in one go.
As of today, it seems it's still not possible without an extension. Here are 2 other extensions than the one proposed in the accepted answer (both are also open-source):
● Batch Replacer (but it doesn't work on the documents open in the editor : "you must have a folder open for editing and all files in it will be updated."*)
● Replace Rules: you simply add some rules in your settings.json
(open the palette with F1
or ctrl+shift+p
and select Preferences: open settings (JSON)
).
"replacerules.rules": {
"Remove trailing and leading whitespace": {
"find": "^\\s*(.*)\\s*$",
"replace": "$1"
},
"Remove blank lines": {
"find": "^\\n",
"replace": "",
"languages": [
"typescript"
]
}
}
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