Visual Studio Code Snippet Variable Transform not working - variables

I'm trying to make a snippet that inserts the last two directorys of the current filepath.
My code:
${TM_DIRECTORY/\\(.*)\\([a-zA-Z]+)\\([a-zA-Z]+)/$1\\$2/}
So when Filepath is
"...\htdocs\projectname\src"
the output should be
"projectname\src".
But instead I get this result:
${TM_DIRECTORY/(.*)\\([a-zA-Z]+)\\([a-zA-Z]+)/$1/}
What am I doing wrong?

Problem:
The issue is the code converts \\ to \. For example if you want to write \w, then you have to write \\win snippet.
The same way.. You have to write \\\\ in snippet json, so that it shall convert into //.
Solution:
${TM_DIRECTORY/.*?\\\\([a-zA-Z]+\\\\[a-zA-Z]+)$/$1/}
or, I think you should use \w instead of [a-zA-Z] because the directory name can contain some characters like - or _ etc.
${TM_DIRECTORY/.*?\\\\(\\w+\\\\\\w+)$/$1/}

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Instead of:
someValue=[{"someValue":"Here is a really really long piece which should be split into multiple lines"}]
I want to do something like:
someValue=`[{"someValue":"Here is a really
really long piece which
should be split into multiple lines"}]`
Doing the latter gives me a JSON parsing error if I try to do JSON.parse(someValue) in my code
I don't know if this will work, but I can't format a comment appropriately enough to get the point across so see if this will work:
someValue=[{"someValue":"Here is a really\
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Where "\" should escape the newline similar to how you can write long bash commands while escaping the newline. I'm not certain the .env interpreter will support it though.
EDIT
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Like #zero298 said, this isn't possible. Likely you could delimit the entry with a character that wouldn't show up normally in the text (^ is a good candidate), then parse it within the application using string.replace('^', '\n');

Sending an argument to batch file with spaces. VB

I am using a VB to run .bat file and to pass arguments to it.
Right now I managed to run it and to send the arguments to it, but ran into a problem. My arguments might contain spaces inside. I was trying to use quotes, but it didn't seem to work as I expected. So what I am doing:
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I cannot escape them or replace with another symbol. This solution needs to pass the argument as one with spaces inside. Is this possible? The program I am working with is not important.
EDIT
This is the content of the .bat file:
set directory_Rexe="C:\Users\XXXXXXX\Desktop\testBat.txt"
set var=%1
echo %var%>%directory_Rexe%
%directory_Rexe%
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Use %~1, which will strip the quotes.
Don't care about putting everything into argument 1 and quoting and use %* instead. You mentioned not wanting that, though.
Don't pass the string as an argument, but as an environment variable instead. This also helps a lot when you have a number of characters in it that need to be escaped.
All options require you to change the batch file, though.
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I am trying to take a string like "Hello my name is Nick" and transform it to "Hello+my+name+is+Nick" to be passed through a URL. This would be easily done by replacing all the spaces with a + char however I also need to replace all special characters (. , ! &) with their ASCII values. I have searched the net but cannot find anything. I wonder if anyone knows of existing code to do this as its a fairly common task?
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Is there a tool for finding the Char code of a character?

I am trying to write a VB function to strip unwanted characters from a string. It is for generating a 'clean' url from data that has been inputted into a CMS. Someone has copied and pasted from a Word document and so there appears to be an mdash or ndash in the product title. This results in ─ appearing instead of -
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Thanks.
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Response.write Asc("-") would write out
45
for example.
Try here or here. From 2nd link I can see that your char is alt150

vb.net VB 2010 Underscore and small rectangles in string outputs?

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Something like this should work...
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If not could you post a line or two of code.
On a side note, this might give some other examples....
Character replacement in strings in VB.NET