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* walking the DOM as a data structure, query strings wont get you that * walking the file system recursively as a data structure * regular expressions * so m
by austincheney 6y ago
* walking the DOM as a data structure, query strings wont get you that
* walking the file system recursively as a data structure
* regular expressions
* so much of any projects documentation can be automated
* once you fully appreciate an understanding of data structures algorithms write themselves
- Minor49er 6y agoSeconding regular expressions. Even for non-developers, they can be hugely useful in word processing and spreadsheets. If you ever need to find or replace text that isn't exact, then you should check it out. Ever had to do something like look for every timestamp in a document or every word ending in -y or -ies, but it was tedious and time consuming? Regex can turn the solution from minutes of manual checking into seconds. This is a pretty good introduction: https://blog.usejournal.com/regular-expressions-a-complete-beginners-tutorial-c7327b9fd8eb https://blog.usejournal.com/regular-expressions-a-complete-b...