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The Developer Tool You Can't Live Without

Jeremy Morgan on January 11, 2020

I'm introducing a text/code generation tool that you will fall in love with. If you're a developer or someone who works with text or tabulated data...
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Ben Sinclair

I think what you've described is mail merge from the 1980s, or possibly snippet managers.

I tend to do this in Vim, because I'm too lazy to learn any of those programs' syntaxes.

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Timothy McGrath

This is the best for SQL queries that I need to write off of a set of data. Like when someone sends me a list of names to add to a database. I can just turn it into a bunch of INSERT statements. It's a lifesaver.

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Katie Adams

Like this a lot

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Sheldon

I evaluated that in the past. Pretty cool. Most of my needs have been solved by vscode and some powershell type scripts when needed. This requires a lot less effort to get there so it's a great tool to have for sure.

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Theofanis Despoudis

Cool

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Jasterix

This is great. I've been using Excel to the same end but this might be better

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Bennett(he/him)

I think this is the tool I needed. Thank you

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Jason C. McDonald

This is not unlike my own Redstring project (which I still have to go finish). Nice work!