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Re:New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel by layer8 on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:00PM (#40468116)
It may appear obvious, but only a very limited subset of real-life spreadsheets could meaningfully take advantage of it. Excel does not support GPU-accelerated calculations.
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Re:New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel by nickpeterson on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:44PM (#40468576)
doesnt the back-end of excel have a columnar data model that can store millions of records in a single excel file?
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Re:New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel by recursive on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:56PM (#40468711)
The front-end of excel doesn't allow the creation of more than 1048576 rows in a sheet. (1<<20)
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