I wish I had asked this sooner. I don’t know really any code at all, but this might be the thing that pushes me to learn some. This looks crazy useful. Time is the enemy right now though - I’ve only got a few free evenings left before class starts, and I don’t trust that I’d know it well enough not to shoot myself in the foot.
When the next break rolls around though, I think regex will be my project. Any foundation you’d recommend learning first? From the bit of searching I’ve done, regex seems to feed straight into conversations about Python or Java - I don’t know any of that. Would it even make sense to try to learn regex without first knowing the basics of a coding language?
I did manage to fine-tune MS Word’s find and replace commands… I’ve got a list of 10 or so find-and-replace searches that does close-enough-for-now to what I want it to do.