VS Code - text replacing using regex groups

In this short article, we would like to show how to replace some text using groups in VS Code IDE.

Simple steps:

1. press Ctrl+F to open search popup window,
2. click ▁* button in the search popup window to enable expression mode,
3. click > button in the search popup window enable replace mode,
4. in Find field write some expression with groups (use brackets),
   e.g. abc(\d+)abc(\d+)abc(\d+)
5. in Replace field write some text using $1, $2, $3, etc. addressing groups,
   e.g. $1-$2-$3
6. click Replace (Enter) button,
   e.g.
   abc123abc456abc789 text should be replaced to 123-456-789,
   abc1abc23abc456 text should be replaced to 1-23-456,
   etc.
7. done!

In this section, we want to show how to replace double apostrophes with single apostrophes in ECMAScript imports.

In the search popup window use the following values:

xxxxxxxxxx

Find field:

    ^import (.*) from "(.*)";

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Replace field:

    import $1 from '$2';

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