VS Code: How to convert snippet placeholder to uppercase or lowercase?

Question

In VS Code, the docs for creating user defined snippets mentions some Grammar which includes options for /upcase, /downcase, and /capitalize, but I can't figure out how to use it.

I'm using the latest version of VS Code: Version 1.25.0 on Mac.

It seems like this snippet should convert the value of the placeholder to uppercase and to lowercase after typing it and hitting tab, but it doesn’t:

"test": {     "prefix": "test",     "body": "${1} -> ${1:/upcase} ${1:/downcase}" }, 

Flow and Expected Result

1. type test
2. hit tab to get the snippet.

3. type Asdf to result in:

   Asdf -> Asdf Asdf 

4. hit tab to get expected result of:

   Asdf -> ASDF asdf 

Current Result

asdf -> asdf asdf 

Answer 1

Try this:

"test": {     "prefix": "test",     // "body": "${1} -> ${1/(.*)/${1:/upcase}/} > ${1/(.*)/${1:/downcase}/}"     // simpler version below works too     "body": "${1} -> ${1/(.*)/${1:/upcase} ${1:/downcase}/}" } 

You need to hit Tab to apply the transformation.

Answer 2

Kind of solution:

  "test": {     "prefix": "test",     "body": "$1 ${1/(.*)/${1:/upcase}/}  ->  ${1/(.*)/${1:/downcase}/}  ->  ${1/(.*)/${1:/capitalize}/}"   } 

result:

asdF ASDF  ->  asdf  ->  AsdF