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by sinstein 2451 days ago
Step 1 - Let me try using command line magic to transform this data Step 2 - ?? Step 3 - Create a scratch file in IDEA and some cursor + regex magic and I am done!
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And those regexes are the first part of an awk script or something similar which will save time when you want to do this repeatedly.

And when your awk script grows into something that doesn’t produce the final output, but has to be run in another interpreter first in order to produce the final result, then you created your custom language.