How to debug programs with “sudo” in VSCODE

I have been in a similar situation recently-
I have solved it by adding {“sudo”: true} in launch.json file under .vscode directory.

just added the following line in .vscode>launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "other..." : "configs...",
            "request": "launch",
            "console": "integratedTerminal",
            "args": [
                "${file}"
            ],
            "sudo": true
        }
    ]
}

VS code version I’m using is –

Version: 1.49.1 OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 64-bit

This appears to not work on all languages. For me it worked for python 3.x Other users reported it doesn’t work for C/C++.