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how to refer to group found with regex in visual studio code search & replace

In Visual Studio Code, in replace, I want to refer to what found in search with regex.

I thought this was done with $1, $2, etc. but I could not.

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then:

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What I want to achive is to get:

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How can I refer in replace to what is found in search?

Note:
What I really aim is not the one in this example. It is only an example to explain what I need: refer to what is found. So, please don’t mind offer other ways to replace "spaces with ->"spaces<-.

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  1. 0

    You can do this using the same syntax but in the search bar (Ctrl+Shift+F).

    edit: I was able to refer to the group this way:
    example

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  2. 0

    In your example, nothing is "found" because you don’t make use of any capture groups in your pattern.

    If you need to refer to the whole match, use $0 in the Replace field.

    If you really want to use $1 instead for whatever reason, wrap your pattern in Find with parenthesis () to indicate it should be treated explicitly as a capture group.

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