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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by jen729w on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:37PM (#34071284)
Yeah, just yesterday. Hacky output from `nslookup`, not ideal but it’s all we had. Tens of thousands of rows. No IDE with regex capabilities available.

Excel to the rescue! Took me about five minutes to extract exactly what I needed.

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by dgacmu on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:11PM (#34074862)
If you can use dig output, the next time you need to do something like this you might find 'jc' helpful: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by jen729w on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:11AM (#34078768)
Government laptop. No can use anything that isn’t whitelisted.

This is the beauty of Excel. It’s a powerful text manipulation tool that everyone has.

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by melagonster on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:58PM (#34075305)
where can I input regex to excel? I really need that, last time I copied table to nopad++ then copy paste it back.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by jen729w on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:06AM (#34078732)
I didn’t. I pasted the output and munged it with Excel’s trusty text functions.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by melagonster on Sunday January 01, 2023 @08:30PM (#34213168)
so in this time, Excel isn't so good...
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by jodrellblank on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:51PM (#34075710)
> "No IDE with regex capabilities available."

If it's Windows there should be PowerShell ISE installed.

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by jen729w on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:08AM (#34078738)
I know I should learn it but, I dunno, I just really dislike the PowerShell syntax. I get what they were going for with the Verb-Noun thing but it just reminds me of AppleScript and I can’t stand it.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by jodrellblank on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:02AM (#34079090)
You don't have to learn or use PowerShell to paste something into the ISE editor and go to 'Edit -> Replace in Script' and do a regex search/replace.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by jen729w on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:56PM (#34086284)
Ahaaa cool tip, that will be useful one day. Thank you.