Comments on: RegEx 101 (Working With Text 2) /2018/01/24/regex-101-working-with-text-2/ Fri, 06 Apr 2018 02:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Kerim /2018/01/24/regex-101-working-with-text-2/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:52:33 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=533#comment-148 In reply to John Williams.

Yeah, I’m planning a post just on “cleaning” badly formatted text like that copied from PDFs. Building up to it slowly …

]]> By: John Williams /2018/01/24/regex-101-working-with-text-2/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:49:26 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=533#comment-147 Another tip: regular expressions are great for making broken PDFs by government agencies and NGOs actually usable.
Just copy/paste a paragraph into a text editor like sublime and you can get rid of all the weird formatting and hard line breaks, or a table and convert it into tab-separated values to post into excel.
Got me through most of my polisci research projects in undergrad. 🙂

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