> On 27 Nov 2019, at 14:46, Harvey Pikelberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Definitely the PHP process can be made to work, and if you’re familiar with
> JS, Node is maybe a little cleaner and more fluent an environment for what
> you want to achieve. ”string”.replace(), for instance, uses native regexp,
> which is clearer and more powerful than str_replace. Either way though —
> Both PHP and JS offer the option to run command line and grep out data and
> also do the cleaning/prepping and pushing to FMP or SQL in ways that leave
> the originals untouched.
>
> BBEdit, is a truly excellent text editor, but for what you’re doing it’s
> probably better for writing up the automation than doing the automation.
On the PHP side, if you stick with that (as it is designed originally as a text
processor, it is a perfectly good choice as well) you will probably want to use
preg_replace instead of the less powerful str_replace, to get the full PCRE
implementation.
David
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