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RadioGaGa
RadioGaGa

Reputation: 35

vscode - Is there any api to get search results?

When I try to search text in a file,I wonder if I could get the results searched by vscode.Is there some api that I can use?

I found some functions like TextSearchProvider in vscode proposed api,but this api is used to search text in whole workplace.I just want the result searched in one file.

example picture

For example,When I try to search Selection,I want the result of this search.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1673

Answers (1)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 180675

Some code from my extension Find and Transform:

function _findAndSelect(editor, findValue, restrictFind) {

    let foundSelections = [];

    // get all the matches in the document
    let fullText = editor.document.getText();
    let matches = [...fullText.matchAll(new RegExp(findValue, "gm"))];

    matches.forEach((match, index) => {
        let startPos = editor.document.positionAt(match.index);
        let endPos = editor.document.positionAt(match.index + match[0].length);
        foundSelections[index] = new vscode.Selection(startPos, endPos);
    });
    editor.selections = foundSelections; // this will remove all the original selections

}

Just get the text of the current document, do some string search like matchAll using your search term. In the code above I wanted to select all those matches in the document - you may or may not be interested in that.

It looks like you want your search term to be the current selection:

// editor is the vscode.window.activeTextEditor

let selection = editor.selection;  
let selectedRange = new vscode.Range(selection.start, selection.end);
let selectedText = editor.document.getText(selectedRange);

Upvotes: 2

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