Remove All Lines Containing String in VSCode
How do we delete entire lines containing a certain substring in VSCode with the Find function?
Example Scenerio in VSCode
I had a JSON file where I wanted to delete every line containing the line code where every value of code was different.
// Example json
[
{
"name": "United Kingdom",
"dial_code": "+44",
"code": "GB"
},
{
"name": "United States",
"dial_code": "+1",
"code": "US"
},
{
"name": "Uruguay",
"dial_code": "+598",
"code": "UY"
},
{
"name": "Uzbekistan",
"dial_code": "+998",
"code": "UZ"
},
{
"name": "Vanuatu",
"dial_code": "+678",
"code": "VU"
},
{
"name": "Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela",
"dial_code": "+58",
"code": "VE"
},
{
"name": "Vietnam",
"dial_code": "+84",
"code": "VN"
}
]
Using regex and VSCode Find in File function.
- Open VSCode’s
Search: Find in Files. (cmd+f) - Click on the regular expression button
[.*] - Write the regular expression
^.*[STRING].*$\n, where[STRING]is your substring. It would be^.*code.*$\nin our example scenario - Replace all with an empty line.
