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editing text at work.

I miss regex. :(

damn you windows without a proper text editor with regex.

Brandon Rozek

@notptr Out of curiosity, what is a common way you edit text using regex?

@brozek I use it as a find replace inside emacs.

At work, I was making group queries in power query, and I needed all the column names. I needed to remove the {} and data types to get the column names.

@brozek the job I was laid off from I would use the group select on regex to build insert statments for sql until I automated the process.

@notptr Gotcha, thanks for sharing. This sounds like a good way of testing the regex interactively before automating it with a script.