I have this string

mark:: string1, string2, string3

I want it to be

mark:: xxstring1xx, xxstring2xx, xxstring3xx

The point is, I don't know how many times the matched string repeated. Sometimes there are 10 strings in the line, sometimes there is none. So far I have come up with this matching pattern mark:: ((.*)(, ) )*, but I'm unable to find a way to substitute individual matched string.

If possible I would like to have this output:

mark:: xxstring1xx
mark:: xxstring2xx
mark:: xxstring3xx

But if it's not possible it's fine to have the one-line solution

CodePudding user response：

You can use

(\G(?!\A)\s*,\s*|mark::\s*)([^\s,](?:[^,]*[^\s,])?)

And replace with $1xx$2xx.

See the

If you have a bunch of these lines in a file and you want to transform them all at once, then follow these steps:

1. In the Find widget, Find: (mark::\s*)(.*)$ with the regex option enabled.
2. Alt Enter to select all matches.
3. Trigger your snippet keybinding from above.

Demo:

For your other version with separate lines for each entry, use this in the keybinding:

{
  "key": "alt w",
  "command": "editor.action.insertSnippet",
  "args": {
    // single line version 
    // "snippet": "${TM_SELECTED_TEXT/(mark::\\s*)|([^,] )(, )?/$1${2: xx}$2${2: xx}$3/g}"
    
    // each on its own line
    "snippet": "${TM_SELECTED_TEXT/(mark::\\s*)|([^,] )(, )?/${2: mark:: }${2: xx}$2${2: xx}${3: \n}/g}"
  }
}