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[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Genuinely very useful, however I feel that can be achieved without a login and paid AI subscription.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

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.