regex - Visual Studio Code Search and Replace with Regular Expressions

Question

I want to use "Search And Replace" in Visual Studio Code to change every instance of <h1>content</h1> to #### content within a document using a Regular Expression.

How can I accomplish that?

Answer 1

So, your goal is to search and replace?
According to the Official Visual Studio's keyboard shotcuts pdf, you can press Ctrl + H on Windows and Linux, or ??F on Mac to enable search and replace tool:

If you mean to disable the code, you just have to put <h1> in search, and replace to ####.

But if you want to use this regex instead, you may enable it in the icon: and use the regex: <h1>(.+?)</h1> and replace to: #### $1.

And as @tpartee suggested, here is some more information about Visual Studio's engine if you would like to learn more:

• Find and Replace Window (documentation)
• Quick Replace, Find and Replace Window (documentation)
• What flavor of Regex does Visual Studio Code use?