How to get the line number and character position of regex match with VS Code's API?-CodePudding

I know how to get the position of the cursor:

editor.selection.active

This will yield something like: { _character: 4, _line 1 }

Now, I'd like to match a character or word (in the active editor) and get it's line number and character position:

const editor = vscode.window.activeTextEditor
let text = editor.document.getText()
const match = text.match(/match/)

// What should I write here?

How to get the line number and character position of the match (or first match)?

I couldn't find anything on Google or VS Code API's documentation.

CodePudding user response：

Use the methods from TextDocument

positionAt(offset: number): Position
Converts a zero-based offset to a position.

The match has an offset (start of match).

CodePudding user response：

Iterate over the lines of your document, and count the line number:

const editor = vscode.window.activeTextEditor;
let lines = editor.document.getText().split(“\n”);

for (let i=0;i<lines.length;i  )
{
    const match = lines[i].match(/match/);
    if (match)
    {
        let char = match[1].index;
        let lineNb = i;
        break;
    }
}