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Nowadays I find myself using excel as a ghetto tool for data munging: compare 2 lists with match(), copying tables from web tools and filtering them in creative ways. Text to columns is your friend. Also copy stuff into Notepad++ if I need to run a quick regex.

Now if only Excel had good Regex built in.

VBA has access to "VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5", which is quite functional. I use it from time to time.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22542834/how-to-use-regul...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974570.aspx

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