About This File
After getting frustrated by having to search the api.xml file every time I needed to call a function, rather than being able to use VSCode's Intellisense to autocomplete and check them, as well as getting no good answer on how I could use the XML as a library or what IDE would support it; I decided to use a series of long regex replacements to convert it from .xml format to .lua format so that I could use the lua.workspace.library setting in Sumneko's LUA extension to add the api to intellisense. I am providing it here because I put 7 hours into this and I don't want anyone who has the same problem to have to do the same thing if I can provide a solution for them.
Bear in mind that this was done with regex replacement, so it's not perfect. And also note that I could not find a way to mark an argument/parameter as optional in a lua library... I may rebuild it and add that to the description section if I get the motivation.
Special thanks to https://regexr.com/ for making the process achievable for me. Without it and it's tools, I would never have been able to finish this project.
If you are interested, here is an example of the crazy regex I ended up using... This isn't even the longest one...
Find: (?:---@return (\b\w+\b ).+?[\s\S]+?)?(?:---@return (\b\w+\b ).+?[\s\S]+?)?(?:---@return (\b\w+\b ).+?[\s\S]+?)?(?:---@return (\b\w+\b ).+?[\s\S]+?)?function (?:\b\w+\b)
replace:$&\n\treturn $1\n\treturn $2\n\treturn $3\n\treturn $4\n
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