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minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·6 days agoI think the idea is that you can use it for reformatting small sets of data I guess. “make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601”
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 days agoGenuinely very useful, however I feel that can be achieved without a login and paid AI subscription.
minus-squarelambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 days agoHeck, it probably can be done with a regex. (Yeah, I know) There’s no need to kill three forests just to do the exact same work you could have done by opening your dataset in Excel.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoYou’re right of course. Like the other commenter said for this specific problem you’d use a spreadsheet. It’s just an example though and there are others, like maybe removing url encoding from a string or something. Again this can be done in some other tool without much fuss, but the versatility offered by notepad will be useful for a lot of people.
I think the idea is that you can use it for reformatting small sets of data I guess.
“make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601”
Genuinely very useful, however I feel that can be achieved without a login and paid AI subscription.
Heck, it probably can be done with a regex. (Yeah, I know)
There’s no need to kill three forests just to do the exact same work you could have done by opening your dataset in Excel.
You’re right of course.
Like the other commenter said for this specific problem you’d use a spreadsheet.
It’s just an example though and there are others, like maybe removing url encoding from a string or something.
Again this can be done in some other tool without much fuss, but the versatility offered by notepad will be useful for a lot of people.