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Let’s use US presidents as an example. Suppose you want to create a layer of US presidents (even though such layer already exists). | Let’s use US presidents as an example. Suppose you want to create a layer of US presidents (even though such layer already exists). | ||
First, you’d go to the corresponding | First, you’d go to the corresponding Wikipedia page and open its source wiki text. | ||
[[File:EditSource.png|300px]] | [[File:EditSource.png|300px]] | ||
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Now everything looks right. Copy the result and paste it into the Editor. | Now everything looks right. Copy the result and paste it into the Editor. | ||
==A harder task== | ==A harder task== | ||
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</nowiki></poem></blockquote> | </nowiki></poem></blockquote> | ||
What | What we want to do is to turn a block of text that looks like this:<blockquote><poem><nowiki> | ||
| align=center | | | align=center | 503 | ||
| [[ | | [[Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (consul 503 BC)|Agrippa Menenius Lanatus]] | ||
| [[ | | [[Publius Postumius Tubertus|P. Postumius Tubertus]] II | ||
</nowiki></poem></blockquote> | </nowiki></poem></blockquote> | ||
Into this:<blockquote><poem><nowiki> | |||
[[ | [[Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (consul 503 BC)|Agrippa Menenius Lanatus]];;;;09.01.-503;; | ||
[[ | [[Publius Postumius Tubertus|P. Postumius Tubertus II]] (post.);;;;09.01.-503;; | ||
</nowiki></poem></blockquote> | </nowiki></poem></blockquote> | ||
You can do it manually, but the problem is that there is almost 500 years worth of Roman consuls (I only did consuls of Roman Republic). | |||
Regular expressions allowed me to find every such block of text and do the needed replacements automatically. In this particular case I created the final syntax right in the text editor without using Parser at all. But a lot of times I use the text editor to prepare the text for the Parser. It all depends on the situation. | Regular expressions allowed me to find every such block of text and do the needed replacements automatically. In this particular case I created the final syntax right in the text editor without using Parser at all. But a lot of times I use the text editor to prepare the text for the Parser. It all depends on the situation. | ||
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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: | ||
Click 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: | |||
[[File:SearchWithRegExp.png]] | [[File:SearchWithRegExp.png]] | ||
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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 | 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. | ||