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To use regular expressions you need a special text editor that programmers use. The one I’m using is VSCode. You can download it [https://code.visualstudio.com/ here]. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a programmer to use it. Treat it as just a text editor. Your workflow will be:  
To use regular expressions you need a special text editor that programmers use. The one I’m using is VSCode. You can download it [https://code.visualstudio.com/ here]. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a programmer to use it. Treat it as just a text editor. Your workflow will be:  
Create new file, paste the text, do replacements. Before doing searching and replacing don’t forget to press the button with dot and asterisk to activate regular expressions:
Create new file, paste the text into it, do replacements. Before doing searching and replacing don’t forget to press the button with dot and asterisk to activate regular expressions:


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To learn about regular expressions read this [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/using-regular-expressions-in-visual-studio article].
To learn about regular expressions read this [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/using-regular-expressions-in-visual-studio article].


In the article they use a different text editor, which you may probably use as well (I just never used it, so I recommend the one I’m familiar with), but the syntax of regular expressions is the same no matter what text editor you use.
In the article they use a different text editor, which you may probably use as well (I just never used it, so I recommend the one I’m familiar with), but the syntax of regular expressions is the same no matter which text editor you use.

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