Select ocurrences between certain lines



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i use a lot the feature to select text and then modify all the occurrences (ctrl+f2), but many times i need to do it but between certain lines only (ex: from line 1 to 20 of a text file), is there a way to do this? maybe with regular expressions?










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  • Restrict to specific line numbers? Not with purely regex. VS code might have some sort of built-in or extension that lets you do it

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  • I don't know of any built in method. You can make a copy of the file, modify occurrences there and copy the lines you need to the original.

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i use a lot the feature to select text and then modify all the occurrences (ctrl+f2), but many times i need to do it but between certain lines only (ex: from line 1 to 20 of a text file), is there a way to do this? maybe with regular expressions?










share|improve this question






















  • Restrict to specific line numbers? Not with purely regex. VS code might have some sort of built-in or extension that lets you do it

    – doom87er
    Nov 15 '18 at 14:55











  • I don't know of any built in method. You can make a copy of the file, modify occurrences there and copy the lines you need to the original.

    – Oram
    Nov 15 '18 at 14:57













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i use a lot the feature to select text and then modify all the occurrences (ctrl+f2), but many times i need to do it but between certain lines only (ex: from line 1 to 20 of a text file), is there a way to do this? maybe with regular expressions?










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i use a lot the feature to select text and then modify all the occurrences (ctrl+f2), but many times i need to do it but between certain lines only (ex: from line 1 to 20 of a text file), is there a way to do this? maybe with regular expressions?







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  • Restrict to specific line numbers? Not with purely regex. VS code might have some sort of built-in or extension that lets you do it

    – doom87er
    Nov 15 '18 at 14:55











  • I don't know of any built in method. You can make a copy of the file, modify occurrences there and copy the lines you need to the original.

    – Oram
    Nov 15 '18 at 14:57

















  • Restrict to specific line numbers? Not with purely regex. VS code might have some sort of built-in or extension that lets you do it

    – doom87er
    Nov 15 '18 at 14:55











  • I don't know of any built in method. You can make a copy of the file, modify occurrences there and copy the lines you need to the original.

    – Oram
    Nov 15 '18 at 14:57
















Restrict to specific line numbers? Not with purely regex. VS code might have some sort of built-in or extension that lets you do it

– doom87er
Nov 15 '18 at 14:55





Restrict to specific line numbers? Not with purely regex. VS code might have some sort of built-in or extension that lets you do it

– doom87er
Nov 15 '18 at 14:55













I don't know of any built in method. You can make a copy of the file, modify occurrences there and copy the lines you need to the original.

– Oram
Nov 15 '18 at 14:57





I don't know of any built in method. You can make a copy of the file, modify occurrences there and copy the lines you need to the original.

– Oram
Nov 15 '18 at 14:57












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if you use VIM mode of vscode then its



:%s/searchstring/replacestring/gc


also you can use :h :s for more detail on substitute options
as well instead of % you can use specific range, for example:



:1,20s/test/worked/g


will change every occurrence of test to worked in a file from line 1 to 20(including)



you should be able to do it using search and replace together with confirmation, just skip those you don't want, but I'm using only VIM mode so don't know exact ways without it :)



PS. you can easy get VIM extension as any other and later enable/disable as necessary.






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    if you use VIM mode of vscode then its



    :%s/searchstring/replacestring/gc


    also you can use :h :s for more detail on substitute options
    as well instead of % you can use specific range, for example:



    :1,20s/test/worked/g


    will change every occurrence of test to worked in a file from line 1 to 20(including)



    you should be able to do it using search and replace together with confirmation, just skip those you don't want, but I'm using only VIM mode so don't know exact ways without it :)



    PS. you can easy get VIM extension as any other and later enable/disable as necessary.






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      if you use VIM mode of vscode then its



      :%s/searchstring/replacestring/gc


      also you can use :h :s for more detail on substitute options
      as well instead of % you can use specific range, for example:



      :1,20s/test/worked/g


      will change every occurrence of test to worked in a file from line 1 to 20(including)



      you should be able to do it using search and replace together with confirmation, just skip those you don't want, but I'm using only VIM mode so don't know exact ways without it :)



      PS. you can easy get VIM extension as any other and later enable/disable as necessary.






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        if you use VIM mode of vscode then its



        :%s/searchstring/replacestring/gc


        also you can use :h :s for more detail on substitute options
        as well instead of % you can use specific range, for example:



        :1,20s/test/worked/g


        will change every occurrence of test to worked in a file from line 1 to 20(including)



        you should be able to do it using search and replace together with confirmation, just skip those you don't want, but I'm using only VIM mode so don't know exact ways without it :)



        PS. you can easy get VIM extension as any other and later enable/disable as necessary.






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        if you use VIM mode of vscode then its



        :%s/searchstring/replacestring/gc


        also you can use :h :s for more detail on substitute options
        as well instead of % you can use specific range, for example:



        :1,20s/test/worked/g


        will change every occurrence of test to worked in a file from line 1 to 20(including)



        you should be able to do it using search and replace together with confirmation, just skip those you don't want, but I'm using only VIM mode so don't know exact ways without it :)



        PS. you can easy get VIM extension as any other and later enable/disable as necessary.







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