What are the uses of Regex other than bulk renaming? Where can I find more info about other uses of regex?
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What are the uses of Regex other than bulk renaming? Where can I find more info about other uses of regex?
Best answer by Gleb
Or do you mean applications of regex in general? Usually it’s used for complex pattern matching where simple search won’t help. For example, validating that a URL is a valid Figma URL. I wrote an article about this:
Medium – 1 Apr 19
The most common case is replacing or moving a word or multiple words, or all characters after a particular character. But regex allows you to define any search patterns you want so the possibilities are pretty much endless.
Or do you mean applications of regex in general? Usually it’s used for complex pattern matching where simple search won’t help. For example, validating that a URL is a valid Figma URL. I wrote an article about this:
Medium – 1 Apr 19Thank you Gleb for this reference and response. Appreciate it. I was looking for some possibilities as a designer, I guess this needs some programming basics, I will get it eventually, I hope.
Hey there
do we have any ability to change uppercase letters to lowercase by expressions?
already have spent more than 5h to figure out how it can work but have no result :((((
could you possibly share an example of match and replace strings?
thank you a lot in advance
As far as I know there is no way to do it via the default rename feature. Try some plugins, for example RenameIt, maybe it’s possible with them.
sorry to hear that, cuz rename_it plugin works with lugs sometime
but thank you for your answer
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