Serial monitor in Visual Studio Code

Hi all ... excuse if this is the wrong forum.

Today I have been experimenting with Visual Studio Code and the platformIO extension. When using the serial terminal there appears to be no way to type in a value and have it fed to the Arduino, unlike the Arduino IDE. Getting it to print back data works the same way.

I don't know if there is a simple way around this, I'm just a hobbyist so keep it simple if you can.

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