I don't want to manually replace id: 1, id: 1, id: 1, into id: 1, id: 2, id: 3 in a object in vs code anymore

Question

I believe that this isn't duplicate. The suggested answer recomennds to use an extention, but I want to use the official feature from vscode.

I have this code:

  {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Ken'
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Ryu'
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Vega'
  },

I want to make it into this:

  {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Ken'
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    name: 'Ryu'
  },
  {
    id: 3,
    name: 'Vega'
  },

I did some research on it, and turns out I can use a feature 'find' and 'replace' in vs code. You can access it from the menu bar 'Edit'.

In the find box, I put 'id: \d+', and in the replace, I put 'id: $[${++counter}]'. However, vs code doesn't recognize the expression. It just prints out 'id: $[${++counter}]', not like 'id: 1, id: 2...' and so on.

I don't even know if the way I did was correct or not...

Is there anyone who knows how to do it correctly? Thank you in advance.

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35283300/vscode-regex-sub-match-evaluate-instead-of-concatenate — paddy, Apr 02 '23 at 10:47
Thanks for the answer. But I want to use the feature from vscode that comes wth by default... — sahasrabhuja neuron, Apr 02 '23 at 11:11
Where is the VS Code documentation where you read about this syntax for regex find-and-replace? I've never seen it before. — paddy, Apr 02 '23 at 11:19
Ah, I see...that syntax came from chatGPT...Do you happen to know the correct syntax to do that? — sahasrabhuja neuron, Apr 02 '23 at 11:22
Why don't you ask ChatGPT to find the documentation, and you can both learn together that this syntax is completely made up. — paddy, Apr 02 '23 at 11:30
Thanks for letting me know that it actually didn't exsit... Now I'm going to try to use Super Replace for that — sahasrabhuja neuron, Apr 02 '23 at 11:47
or you can use **Regex Text Generator**: https://stackoverflow.com/a/75911867/9938317 — rioV8, Apr 02 '23 at 11:55
ChatGPT is a dumb parrot, don't ask it anything related to programming or physics — rioV8, Apr 02 '23 at 11:56
almost everything in VSC is done with extension (build in or installed) so try to do something when you disable all, yes all, extension also the build-in s — rioV8, Apr 02 '23 at 12:01
Haha I thought chatGPT was good for things like especially programming, because there are always correct answers decided like Math, compered to something like art. — sahasrabhuja neuron, Apr 02 '23 at 12:05
Also, thanks for lettking me know about Regex Text Generator, I'm going to try that with it — sahasrabhuja neuron, Apr 02 '23 at 12:06
ChatGPT is really bad at math, even at basic math. ChatGPT guesses texts. It's not an AI that understands the context of your question. — jabaa, Apr 02 '23 at 13:57

z.g. · Answer 1 · 2023-04-02T10:50:43.063

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you can do it easily in your code:

const array = [{ id: 1, name: 'Ken' }, { id: 1, name: 'Ryu' }, { id: 1, name: 'Vega' }]

array.forEach((item, ind) => { item.id = ind})

edited Apr 02 '23 at 10:50

answered Apr 02 '23 at 10:48

z.g.

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Thanks for the answer. But I just want to edit them with the feature from vs code. – sahasrabhuja neuron Apr 02 '23 at 11:07

I don't want to manually replace id: 1, id: 1, id: 1, into id: 1, id: 2, id: 3 in a object in vs code anymore

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