VSCode regex find & replace submatch math?

Question

%s@{fileID: \\(213[0-9]*\\)@\\=\'{fileID: \'.(submatch(1)-1900)@

I am using this regex search and replace command in vim to subtract a constant fro

Answer 1

In my case $1 was not working, but $0 works fine for my purpose.

In this case I was trying to replace strings with the correct format to translate them in Laravel, I hope this could be useful to someone else because it took me a while to sort it out!

Search: (?<=
).*?(?=
)
Replace: {{ __('$0') }}

Regex Replace String for Laravel Translation