I've a bunch of Markdown links with whitespace, and I need to replace the whitespace with . So far I've hacked a few solutions, but none that work in VSCode, or do exactly what I'm looking for.
This is the URL format conversion I need:
[My link](../../_resources/my resource.jpg)
[My link](../../_resources/my resource.jpg)
\s (?=[^(\)]*\)) will work on any whitespace inside brackets - but gives false positives as it works on anything with brackets.
(?:\]\(|(?!^)\G)[^]\s]*\K\h does the job, but I'm getting some "Invalid Escape Character" messages in VSCode, so I assume the language isn't compatible.
I've been trying to identify the link on the characters ]( but as I'm relatively new to regex, struggling a bit.
I tried with this regex: (?<=\]\()s\ as this (?<=\]\(). correctly identifies the url, but it doesn't work.
Where am I going wrong here? Thanks in advance!
EDIT: VSCode find in files doesn't support variable length lookbehind, even though find/replace in the open file does support this. Open to any other solutions before I dive into writing a script!
CodePudding user response：
VSCode regex does not support \K, \G, or \h, but it does support Lookbehinds with non-fixed width. So, you may use something like the following:
(?<=\]\([^\]\r\n]*)[^\S\r\n]
Details:
(?<=\]\([^\]]*)- a positive lookbehind that matches a location that is immediately preceded with](and then any zero or more chars other than]\s- any one or more whitespace chars (other than line break chars in Visual Studio Code, if there is no\nor\rin the regex,\sdoes not match line break chars)(?=[^()]*\))- a positive lookahead that matches a location that is immediately followed with zero or more chars other than(and)and then a)char.
Since you are using it in Find/Replace in Files, this lookbehind solution won't work.
You can use Notepad with
(\G(?!\A)|\[[^][]*]\()([^()\s]*)\s (?=[^()]*\))
and $1$2 replacement pattern. In Notepad , press CTRL SHIFT F and after filling out the necessary fields, hit Replace in Files.
See the sample settings:
