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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.
Visual Studio has a builtin helper utility to create regular expressions right from Visual Studio. Open the “Find in Files” dialog window, Select “Regular Expression” like a boss. Then, click on the button next to the “Find What” input box. And you'll see the hidden treasure.
Visual Studio uses . NET regular expressions to find and replace text.
For versions before Visual studio 2012:
It works when I do this:
find include "{[a-zA-Z]+\.h}",
replace with include <\1>.
The most relevant parts for your question are the curly braces {} and the back reference \1: \n references to the n'th group indicated by curly braces in the search expression.
For versions Visual studio 2012 & up:
Starting with VS2012 .NET Framework regular expressions are used. So there it should be:
find include "([a-zA-Z]+\.h)",
replace with include <$1>.
You need to select both Match Case and Regular Expressions for regex expressions with case.
Else [a-z] won't work.
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