Text Tools for VS Code

Swiss Army knife for text manipulation and selection. This extension provides 65+ commands to manipulate and select text in your files. The commands are available globally and ready to be used any time with any file. If you have text selected it will perform the actions in the current selections otherwise it will perform the action in the entire file.

Text transform commands

• Make Camel Case: test string becomes testString
• Make Screaming Snake Case: test string becomes TEST_STRING
  • Also available as Make Constant Case
• Make Dot Case: test string becomes test.string
• Make Header Case: test string becomes Test-String
  • Also available as Make Train Case
• Make No Case: testString becomes test string
• Make Flat Case: testString becomes teststring
• Make Snake Case: Test string becomes test_string
• Make Pascal Snake Case: Test string becomes Test_String
• Make Camel Snake Case: Test string becomes test_String
• Make Kebab Case: Test string becomes test-string
• Make Screaming Kebab Case: Test string becomes TEST-STRING
• Make Pascal Case: test string becomes TestString
• Make Path Case: test string becomes test/string
• Make Sentence Case: testString becomes Test string
• Make Sponge Case: Test string becomes tEsT StRiNG
• Make Capital Case: Test string becomes Test String
• Make Lower Case: Test string becomes test string
• Make Upper Case: Test string becomes TEST STRING
• Make Title Case: step-by-step instructions becomes Step-by-Step Instructions

Text sort and filter commands

• Sort Lines Alphanumerically
• Sort Lines Alphanumerically Reverse
• Sort Lines by length
• Sort Lines by length Reverse
• Delete Duplicate Lines
• Delete Empty Lines
• Filter Duplicate Lines (In case you only want to know the duplicate values)
• Filter Duplicate Lines as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
• Filter Unique Lines (In case you only want to know the unique values and exclude duplicates: example: a, b, b, c becomes a, c)
• Filter Unique Lines as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
• Delete Lines Matching... (Delete all lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
• Filter Lines Matching... (Filter all lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
• Filter Lines Matching as New Document (same as above but result will be added in a new document)
• Reverse Lines
• Randomize Lines
• Join Lines (Join lines using a specified delimiter)
• Split Text to Lines (Split a string to lines at the specified delimiter)
• Add Lines number with multiple formats: 1, 1., 1), 1.-, 1 -, 1:, Ordinal, Roman Numerals

Text encode and decode commands

• Base64 Encode
• Base64 Decode
• URL Encode
• URL Decode
• Encode Spaces: converts spaces to %20
• Decode Spaces: converts %20 to spaces
• Encode HTML Entities
• Decode HTML Entities
• HTML to Decimal Entities: Useful to obfuscate emails in HTML. it can be decoded with Decode HTML Entities
• ASCII to decimal
• ASCII to Hex
• Text to Binary
• Binary to Text
• Text to ROT13
• Add Slashes
• Strip Slashes
• Smart Quotes "I don't know you" becomes “I don’t know you”
• Straighten Quotes “don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’” becomes "don't know what you mean by 'glory'"
• Single Quotes to Double Quotes
• Single Quotes to Backticks
• Double Quotes to Single Quotes
• Double Quotes to Backticks
• Quotes to Backticks
• Insert Non-breaking Space  

Selection commands

• Select Lines Matching... (Selects lines that contains certain text or matches a regex)
• Select Words Matching... (Select all strings that contains certain text or matches a regex)
• Select All Ocurrences (grabs your currently selected text and will select all ocurrences in the file)
• Selection Align (Planned)

To learn more please checkout the examples below.

Wrap and Append/Prepend

• Wrap Each Line With... (for example: <li>$1</li>, read more below.)
• Add Text At Beginning of Lines... (adds at the beginning of each line the text you entered)
• Add Text At Ends of Lines... (adds at the end of each line the text you entered)

Generate Commands

• Generate UUID
• Generate Fake Data (Names, Emails, Phones, Credit Cards, etc. Still working on it but definitely will be added)
• Generate Dummy File (Quickly create any file with any extension and size, read more below.)

Count Commands

• Count Words
• Count Characters
• Count Lines

Numbers

• Add All Numbers (View the examples below)
• Substract All Numbers (View the examples below)

JSON

• JSON String Parse (Pretty print a JSON encoded string with support for serialized strings, this way you can easily print a serialized array from a database)

   

How to use the commands?

Easy, there are several ways.

• You can invoke the commands using the Commands Palette
• You can right click your file and you will see a "Text Tools" menu that contains all the available commands
• You can also configure a Key Binding for the command you use the most

 

Mastering commands with Matching

This is an advanced way to filter by entering a simple query or a regular expression, this works for command that includes in it's name Matching... for example: Delete Lines Matching..., Filter Lines Matching..., Select Lines Matching, etc. Here are some examples of how to use it.

 

Filter with a simple query

Having the following text, if we for example call the command "Filter Lines Matching..." and we enter gmail it will leave only the lines that contains gmail

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
okuneva.gerhard@yahoo.com
miracle47@olson.org
uruecker@kemmer.com
lulu.gerhold@yahoo.com
xfranecki@gmail.com

result will be:

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
xfranecki@gmail.com

 

Filter lines that begins with

To match lines at the beginning, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need to enter our query starting with a ^ so if we enter ^ma

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
okuneva.gerhard@yahoo.com
miracle47@olson.org
uruecker@kemmer.com
matilda.qkieu@gmail.com
lulu.gerhold@yahoo.com

result will be:

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
matilda.qkieu@gmail.com

 

Filter lines that ends with

To match lines that ends with, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need to enter our query ending with a $ so if we enter org$

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
miracle47@olson.org
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org.xyz
lulu.gerhold@yahoo.com

result will be:

miracle47@olson.org

 

Filter lines that DO NOT contain certain text

To match lines that do not contain some text, when calling the command (for example "Filter Lines Matching...") we just need start our query with a ! so if we enter !gmail.com we are basically saying keep only lines that do not contain gmail.com

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
miracle47@olson.org
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org.xyz
almendra.gerhold@gmail.com

result will be:

miracle47@olson.org
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org.xyz

 

Filter lines with regular expressions

You can use the power of regular expressions to filter lines for example if you filter using @we.+dogs\.org we can return lines that have @we followed by any amount of characters followed by dogs.org

marquardt.gudrun@gmail.com
doggyhelp@welovedogs.org
miracle47@olson.org
humanfrinds@wecarealotfordogs.org

result will be:

doggyhelp@welovedogs.org
humanfrinds@wecarealotfordogs.org

 

Select Ocurrences Matching

You can use this to quickly make selections by using a regex or regular text for example:

# Given the following code
class Foo(object):
    def some(self, arg):
        self.bar = arg
        self.baz = arg + self.smth

    def on_done(self, rx):
        self.view = x

    def on_change(self, rx):
        self.view = x

We can invoque the "Select Ocurrences Matching..." and we can enter def to select all ocurrences of def, we can also use a regular expression for example def (\w+)\(self, rx\) this will select on_done and on_change

If you use regex and there's capture groups then only the groups will be selected.

 

Wrap Each Line With

With this command you can wrap each line with any text you want, you can use $1 as placeholder to represent the line content, for example: <li>$1</li>

Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi
Wava Fodor
Annamarie Dianei

result will be:

<li>Duncan Prewett</li>
<li>Ernesto Gladi</li>
<li>Wava Fodor</li>
<li>Annamarie Dianei</li>

 

Join Lines

You can join lines with any delimiter you want, for example, if you use a comma as delimiter.

Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi

result will be:

Duncan Prewett,Ernesto Gladi

 

Split Text to Lines

You can split text with any delimiter you want, for example, if you use a comma as delimiter.

Duncan Prewett,Ernesto Gladi

result will be:

Duncan Prewett
Ernesto Gladi

 

JSON String Parse

Really usefull to pretty print some json string, for example:

{"name":"John", "age":30, "car":null}

result will be:

{
  "name": "John",
  "age": 30,
  "car": null
}

It also works for serialized strings in case you grab the value from a database and quickly need to inspect it's content.

s:60:"{"product":"Awesome Product", "price": 200, "shipping":null}";

result will be:

{
  "product": "Awesome Product",
  "price": 200,
  "shipping": null
}

 

Numbers

You can easily add or substract all the numbers in your document, each value must be in it's own line, if the line contains other text it will be removed to leave only the numbers. Important: for now it only supports numbers with comma as thousand separator and dot as decimal separator

130.23
Price $2,000.00
Discount 40

result will be:

2170.23

 

Generate Dummy File

You can create dummy files to test API's, file uploads, etc. The file will be created at the root of your project, with the filename and size provided. You can call the command from the command palette or from the menu Extensions -> Generate Dummy File

The file name can be anything for example:

myfile (with no extension)
myfile.text
myfile.mp4
myfile.zip
myfile.pdf
myfile.csv
...etc

The file size can be written in multiple ways, it's case insensitive and spaces are ignored.

1500 (if only a number it's entered it will be interpreted as bytes so in this case 1500 bytes)
500kb or 500 kb or 500 kilobytes
200mb or 200 mb or 200 megabytes
2gb or 2 gb or 2 gigabytes
...etc

 

Have an idea for another tool?

If you have one in mind do not hesitate to share it with us, if it can help a lot of people we'll surely implement it.

Contribution

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Feel free to open an issue if you find an error, PR's are welcome.

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