Lex Trotman wrote: >Why do people still do data wrangling in text this many years after >the invention of the day-tar base. (rhetorical question ;-)
I often need to wrangle day-tar with a text editor to simplify migrating it from some truly horrid Microsoft Access pile to something less horrid, at least when it's only going to be a one-off migration and scripting it would take longer, but that aside... I quite often grab chunks of text from such sources as XML files, SQL schemas, CSV nastiness, visually-impenetrable legacy code etc. and use Geany to strip them back to useful field names that I can then drop into code classes, HTML forms, etc. using a mix of regex and piped commands. I used to do that sort of thing with a variety of sed, awk and python scripting but generally find I can do it all much faster directly in Geany these days (especially with the most frequently used transforms bound to a couple of keystrokes). >[...] >> In fact, the predominant Scintilla- based editor on Windows, Notepad++, >> has a nifty plugin called TextFX that does thus plus dozens of other >> really nice text transforms because they can be so handy. Perhaps this >> plugin can one day become the Geany equivalent :) > >Maybe Emil could take that as a challenge, at least he knows where to >look for ideas :) and this plugin could be the start of an incremental >implementation. I was hoping so, or at least it might serve as a good base for the next hacker :) -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "You don't wonder where we're going Or remember where we've been We've got to keep this traffic Flowing and accept a little spin So this long line of cars Will never have an end And this long line of cars Keeps coming around the bend" - Cake _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
