How to get VS Code active window's current file path?

[omareg94]

I need to get active window's file path of VS Code.
I'm able to get active window's file path of Sublime Text using the method below:

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RunWait, "subl --command ""copy_path""",,Hide
filepath = Clipboard

I've searched for a similar CLI command for VS Code but I couldn't find any.

[boiler]

You can get the file path from the title of the VS Code window. The RegExMatch below removes the ● and space preceding the filename if it appears (indicating unsaved changes) and the - Visual Studio Code from the end.

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WinGetTitle, filepath, ahk_exe Code.exe
RegExMatch(filepath, Chr(9679) . "? ?\K.*(?= - Visual Studio Code)", filepath)

[omareg94]

You can get the file path from the title of the VS Code window. The RegExMatch below removes the ● and space preceding the filename if it appears (indicating unsaved changes) and the - Visual Studio Code from the end.

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WinGetTitle, filepath, ahk_exe Code.exe
RegExMatch(filepath, Chr(9679) . "? ?\K.*(?= - Visual Studio Code)", filepath)

This doesn't work for new versions of VS Code (I have 1.50.1) because VS Code shows only the file name on title.
Also I don't prefer to use this approach (even if there's some setting in VS Code to show full path) because I want to keep windows' titles simplified.
I hope there's another approach to get file's path.

[boiler]

I also have 1.50.1, and it shows the full path. Perhaps I changed the setting to show the full path at some point to allow it to grab the path for other scripts.

In case you don't eventually find an alternate approach and you want to change your title to the full path, you would change the window.title setting to ${activeEditorLong}.

[KnIfER]

I have vscode 1.64 and the title only contains filename.

My workaround : send hotkey to vscode and copy full path to clipbpard.