Yes, master it and it will be your best friend along with TextMate of course :)

Here is a playground:

http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

Here is some background:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

Enjoy,
 Michael


On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:57 PM, supinum <david@supinum.com> wrote:

Wow! this defenitly something to wet ones pants over. How does one get to
understand these things. I know I love the idea but how am I ever going to
get the grips! ahhh!
Thanx!

/David


Michael Bøcker-Larsen wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm not sure of the full context of your problem but you could also do a
> regex search and replace
>
> search for this:     ^(.+)$   (make sure to tick of regex)
> replace with this:   $1\t$1
>
> Then all your lines is duplicated separated by a tab.
>
> / Michael
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Tobias Jung <newsgr@tobiasjung.net>
> wrote:
>
>> supinum <david@supinum.com> wrote (Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:24:41 -0700):
>>
>> > Still one question though.
>> > What if I have thousands of images...
>> > Will I under any circumstances have to scroll down to the bottom of my
>> list
>> > to in order to select every single line?
>>
>> No, you can use command + a to select all, then hit the option key once.
>> You'll see that the normal kind of selection switches to column mode --
>> at least, in theory.
>> I don't know why but sometimes this doesn't work for me and I have to
>> hit the option key a few times for the selection to change, or maybe de-
>> select all and start again...
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Tobias Jung
>>
>>
>>
>>
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