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Definitely courses for horses, and all that. Whichever way works quickly and accurately for you is the best way... I've used multiple cursors for many purposes
by jnsie 6y ago
Definitely courses for horses, and all that. Whichever way works quickly and accurately for you is the best way...
I've used multiple cursors for many purposes, initially as a dev it worked very well as a poor man's ETL - take a spreadsheet and perform a bunch of transformations (reverse first name and last name, trim these fields, add leading zeros to this field, concatenate these fields, delete this field, use some sublime plugins to generate incrementing IDs, etc.), wrap it in a SQL insert statement, etc. etc. I used it a ridiculous amount and at times it made me look far more efficient than I really am.
I'm on the business side now but even today I found myself cleaning some data with multiple cursors, sorting alphabetically, and then using a 'count duplicates' command I found on GitHub to remove duplicates and prefix each line with the number of times it was duplicated. I could have done it in excel, but it took me literally 20 seconds to do it in Sublime.