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minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·15 hours 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-up5·12 hours agoGenuinely very useful, however I feel that can be achieved without a login and paid AI subscription.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours 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.
minus-squarelambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 hours 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.
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.
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.
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.