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heretoinfinity
heretoinfinity

Reputation: 1746

Is there a way to use regex to surround words with double quotes with find & replace in VS code?

I have output that looks like a JSON object and would like to pretty print it. I have the plugin to pretty print it but I can only do so if the output has double quotes in the words, which my output doesn't (see example below). Is there a way to do so with regex provided by Visual Studio Code or do I have to learn how to get a script to do this for me?

{a: b, c: [], d: {e: f} }

Desired output:

{"a": "b", "c": [], "d": {"e": "f"} }

Which vscode-json:Beautify can pretty print later provide indentation like:

{
    "a": "b", 
    "c": [], 
    "d": {
       "e": "f"
    } 
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3460

Answers (2)

yet.another.coder
yet.another.coder

Reputation: 390

To achieve this, you can simply select the Regular Expression and

then search for

".*."

Upvotes: 1

RufusVS
RufusVS

Reputation: 4127

In VSCode Search and Replace:

\w+ for the search argument

"$0" for the replace argument

and press "replace all"

Upvotes: 5

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