Posts tagged "RegEx" (Page 2)

AutoHotkey Webinar- Using AHK string functions in Excel

AHK In this webinar we walked through using AutoHotkey String functions in Excel.

Script Highlight: Pull data about your computer with WMI by shajul.

Video Hour 1 & 2 : AHK string functions in Excel

Books on RPA (Robotics Process Automation) that I mentioned in the webinar

Below are links to books I showed during the webinar. I put them into two groups (those I like/recommend and those I don’t). I’m more of a “glass is half-full” kind of guy and think technology is good. The books I don’t recommend were much more negative towards technology. While I don’t recommend them, I think time will tell who is right/wrong. Personally any of the following you buy I’d try and buy as used. Many are pretty expensive new (probably because of the small market size)

Recommended Robotics Process Automation books

Service Automation: Robots and the Future of Work 2016 -Great book!
Robotic Process Automation and Risk Mitigation: The Definitive Guide 2017
Robotic Process and Cognitive Automation: The Next Phase 2018 -Great book!
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology 2019 – very interesting
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy 2018 – some wild ideas here
The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines 2018
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us 2015
Managing IT as a Strategic Resource 1997
Beyond the IT Productivity Paradox 1999 – old but still interesting

Not recommended but still on the RPA topic

In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power 1989
The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future 2009
A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control 2015
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future 2016

We also mentioned using ternary operators

Intro to Ternary tutorial by Joe
Ternary walk through by VxE
Not Ternary, but you might like one line operators

and Alternate Data Stream as data storage

Here’s the code Jackie walked through.

Extract email address from text with Regular Expression in AutoHotkey

Regular Expressions are incredibly helpful for day-to-day tasks! In this short video I demonstrate how easy it is to use a Regular Expression (RegEx) in AutoHotkey to extract email addresses from text. The first half of the video shows how I use it to parse the haystack listed in the script. The second half of the video I make a minor tweak and adapt it to work with any program that you can copy text to the clipboard.

Below is the code to extract emails with a Regular Expression that I demonstrate in the video

Extract email addresses via Regular Expression in AutoHotkey

RegEx 111) How to Ignore Whitespace in AutoHotkey Regular Expression

Long Regular Expressions can be very difficult to read and revise when you come back to it later. Using the X) option allows you to Ignore Whitespace in AutoHotkey Regular Expression and insert comments as well as spread out your RegEx over multiple lines.

Below is the example code I use to ignore the whitespace in AutoHotkey RegEx which is demonstrated in the video below. It is a great way to make your code easier to read & maintain. It may take a few months until you revisit your RegEx but, when you do, you’ll thank me for it!

Ignore Whitespace in AutoHotkey Regular Expression

RegEx 110- Example using AutoHotkey Regular Expression on naming convention

I’ve found the best way to learn RegEx is to actually play with it. For that reason I’m making a few videos that will demonstrate actual use-cases. In this example I demonstrate applying an AutoHotkey Regular Expression on naming convention. As I show in this video, there are a ton of different ways you can write a Regular Expression that will capture what you need. There isn’t a “right” & “wrong” way, just make sure what you use is reliable and makes sense to you.