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

For beginners, the accepted answer is correct, but a little terse if you're not that familiar with either VSC or Regex.

So, in case this is your first contact with either:

To find and modify text,

1. In the "Find" step, you can use regex with "capturing groups," e.g. I want to find (group1) and (group2), using parentheses. This would find the same text as I want to find group1 and group2, but with the difference that you can then reference group1 and group2 in the next step:

2. In the "Replace" step, you can refer to the capturing groups via $1, $2 etc, so you could change the sentence to I found $1 and $2 having a picnic, which would output I found group1 and group2 having a picnic.

Notes:

• Instead of just a string, anything inside or outside the () can be a regular expression.

• $0 refers to the whole match