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How can I duplicate a line of code multiple times in Visual Studio Code?

I know there’s a shortcut to duplicate a selected text:

To Copy Up – shift+alt+up

To Copy Down – shift+alt+down

But how can I do if I need to duplicate it, say, 33 times? Is there a faster way to do that?

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  1. 0

    Unfortunately, as far as I know, Visual Studio Code does not provide built-in functionality to automatically duplicate code a certain number of times.

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  2. 0

    If you know you might have to do this often, you could make a code-snippet for this. Maybe one that copies 10 rows at a time.

    {
    "Duplicate 10 lines of code at once": {
    "prefix": "dup",
    "body": [
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1",
        "$1"
    ],
    "description": "Copy the code, type "dup", then paste 10 lines of code at once."
}
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    A fairly fast way to achieve this is to create your 33 (or however many) lines in your editor, then use the multi-line cursor (hold Alt + Shift then use your mouse to select the lines you want the cursor to include), and then paste your text, like so:

    paste lots of lines using multi-cursor

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