Was converting some excel stock data into csv, and then into mysql insert commands, and needed a quick way to do this.

I’ve always found Edit Plus to be a handy, light weight text editor.. at once stage in life even using it as my main PHP IDE (use ZDE now though).. However today I found out how to do a really cool regular expression search and replace.. Example below:

Say we had the line of data:

1/08/2006,265,87654321

and we wanted it to look like:

INSERT INTO `share_item_history` (`stamp`, `value`, `volume`) VALUES ('2006-08-01',265,87654321);

you could do:
Search:

\n

Replace:

\nINSERT INTO `share_item_history` (`stamp`, `value`, `volume`) VALUES ('

and then:
Search:

n

Replace:

);\n

and then:

([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)/2006

Search:

2006-\2-\1

It could be done a lot more elegantly using more regular expressions, but I don’t have time right now..

Reference to: http://editplus.info/wiki/Regular_Expressions.