Is there a way to turn off regular expressions when searching in VS Code? Oftentimes, when searching for a specific line of code (or partial line), VS Code interprets the search string as an "Invalid regular expression". I just want to do a search on a literal string without VS Code attempting to interpret the entry as a regular expression. I do not see any way to turn this off in the Features / Search options.
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Click on the .* symbol on the right side of the Find/Search box to disable the regular expression mode. Alternatively hit Alt+R when the the Find/Search box is active.
The .* icon is used more often to represent a regular expression. It is itself a regular expression consisting of . meaning any character (except for line terminators) and the * quantifier meaning "0 or more occurrences". It effectively means "match anything".
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