Regex working on regex101 but not in Vscode snippet

June 3, 2022

I am struggling with a regex that works fine on regex101: https://regex101.com/r/Hhj2l9/1, but not in a vscode snippet for html.

From the following string: C:\folder0\folder1\folder2\libtest\folder3\folder4\folder5

I get the following results on regex101: libtest/libfolder3/libfolder4/folder5, which is what I want.

In my snippet:

lib${TM_DIRECTORY/(?:.*lib)?([^\\\\.*]*)\\\\/$1\\//g}

The result below in the html:

lib${TM_DIRECTORY/(?:.*lib)?([^\.*]*)\/\//g}

Has anyone an idea on how to make it work in a vscode snippet?
Thanks a lot in advance.

You can use

"${TM_DIRECTORY/(?:.*[\\\\\\/]lib)?([^\\\\\\/]+)[\\\\\\/]/lib$1\\//g}"

Here,

(?:.*[\\\/]lib)? – matches an optional occurrence of any zero or more chars other than line break chars as many as possible, and then \ or / and lib
([^\\\\\\/]+) – Group 1 ($1): one or more chars other than \ and /
[\\\\\\/] – a / or \.