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4 hours later…
10:32
empty?
@JacobJanTuinstra & @VidarS.Ramdal
is such equivalent regex support poossible in excel? http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/find-and-replace-text-by-using-regular-expressions-advanced-HA102350661.aspx
without using any macro/vba?
 
2 hours later…
12:06
@jackopen Not sure I understand ... isn't the link you posted describing how to do it in Excel?
 
1 hour later…
13:08
the link i posted was about word
@VidarS.Ramdal
i want to perfrom similar regex operation of find & replace in excel using same tricks
ah, sorry, missed that. And you are meaning Excel, and not Google Spreadsheets? :)
yes MS-excel
sorry, I haven't seen such a feature in Excel, but maybe @JacobJanTuinstra knows better
ok i ll wait his reply
do you know how to use regex in Macro/function in excel?
no, I don't know much Excel or VBA, I'm afraid
13:15
ok, can you inform some of the cool tricks/feature of spreadsheet you know about?
13:26
I use mostly Google Spreadsheets. Don't know off the top of my head if it supports search/replace with regexp, but it can certainly be scripted.
any other tricks, which you know & less popular about google spreadsheets?
Hmm, I make a lot of stuff using =importHTML (which may also exist in Excel, don't know), which is really cool for integrating with and pulling data from external sources
And that could be almost any source, like a regular website with a table on it
Sports results, for example
Combine that with user input (through Google Forms), and you could actually make a quite capable webapp with just a few lines of code
My friends and I have an annual competition on guessing who wins Premier League. With a spreadsheet and some scripting, I have made a status board which shows who has the closest guess, historic graphs and much more
13:58
@VidarS.Ramdal I'm only using Google Spreadsheet and occasionally Excel. I think @pnuts is much more experienced on that particular topic.

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