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Visual Studio Code – Search and Replace in all files in VSCode behaves different compared to search and replace inside a file

I have several functions across different files, and they usually are like this:
"prefix":"functionName (...)", like pub:isInt. And I wanted to put the first letter of the function as capital, so I did this regex to change to pub:IsInt (this also rejects other non-intented matches, that is why it is like this):

MATCH: ([a-z]+):([a-z])([a-z t_:]*)?(?=()

REPLACE: $1:U$2$3

This works fine for one function, the problem is when I have several functions in the same line, like:

pv:collect(table | pv:hasElement(table) AND pv:element(table))

Search and Replace in multiple files does this:

pv:Collect(table | pv:Collect(table) AND pv:Collect(table))

which is wrong because $1, $2 and $3 match only the first for the whole line.

Search and Replace in one file does the correct:

pv:Collect(table | pv:HasElement(table) AND pv:Element(table))

Does anyone happen to know what the error might be?

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  1. 0

    This looks like an actual bug in VSCode

    I’ve created an issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/196592

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  2. 0

    Your regex will match more than you think, see regex101 demo.

    VS Code will produce 2 matches as well IF you enable the MatchCase option – otherwise it’ll treat your [a-z] as [a-zA-Z].

    Perhaps you can use ^ at the beginning of the regex like:

    ^([a-z]+):([a-z])([a-zA-Z t_:]*)?(?=()    // need for the MatchCase option

    You see I added A-Z so you don’t need the MatchCase option.

    I think what you really want is

    ([a-z]+):([a-z])([w t_:|()]*)(?=()

    I added |() to your character class. And I used w so it handles both lower and upper characters. See regex101 demo and tested in vscode.

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