Regex for form.controls['property']

Question

I am trying to find replace thousands of strings in code - form.controls['property'] with form.get('property') where property is a variable. So far I got find expression .controls\['\w+'\] with replace expression .get\('\w+'\) but VSCode is replacing .controls['products'] with .get\('\w+'\) for string productForm.controls['products'].controls.length. I need to replace it with productForm.get('products').controls.length Any ideas how to fix it? Thanks!

Answer 1

Parentheses () capture a group. Money sign $ accesses a group by index.

.controls\['(\w+)'\]

.get('$1')

This is the result in VS Code:

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