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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

If there's a clear pattern, regex is your friend. I use it for complex find-and-replace actions, or to generate code based on a template and a list of values (find a value, replace it with the template including the value). Full control over the output, more reliable even than manual copy-pasting.