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LibreOffice has had regex for donkeys years.
by 6c696e7578 2y ago
LibreOffice has had regex for donkeys years.
- dylan604 2y agoI read the title, and was actually surprised how in 2024 this is a headline. I'm surprised that this has not been a feature since forever as well.
- alwillis 2y agoApple’s Numbers spreadsheet has had regex support for a while as well.
- airstrike 2y agowhich is probably the one good thing you can say about Apple's Numbers
- animal_spirits 2y agoI can say the UX of Apple Numbers is the best, much above the usability I've found of Excel. Much less powerful, but it is much easier to use Apple Numbers
- airstrike 2y agoeasier to use for power users or for beginners?
- perryprog 2y agoAs someone who regularly flits between Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, and Numbers regularly (with my most time in Google Sheets and Numbers), and as someone who's made some extremely complicated spreadsheets in all three, I have to say I vastly prefer Numbers if I can get away with it. It has a lot of issues that can make some stuff hard fast (no array formulas is a big one), but I find it significantly easier and faster to prototype in Numbers regardless. I think the main bit I love so much about it is having actual tables instead of the Infinite Grid that most spreadsheet software uses. You get named ranges for free, and it makes semantical sense too, among a good number of other benefits (sheet organization, refactoring, simpler styling...). There are some really nice things that Google Sheets does, and I've done a few fancy things with App Script which isn't too bad, and I do really like QUERY though I wish it was a bit higher power. I just always find myself missing the UX of Numbers, though.