🛠 Text manipulation tools

How often during your day-to-day work do you work not with the programming language, but with plain text? I do it quite often. There are some tools that help me.

1️⃣ delim.co

This is my favorite. Imagine you have a list of 1000 uuids and you need to query your PostgreSQL database about them. What would you do? With the help of delim.co you can convert your list from:

f50e781f-233d-461e-948b-db7fae9147f6
ba86bc1b-1b17-4915-bcfa-890be8cb2f40
bf6885cc-76f6-4f68-8ab0-7956b4ec1d34

to

'f50e781f-233d-461e-948b-db7fae9147f6',
'ba86bc1b-1b17-4915-bcfa-890be8cb2f40',
'bf6885cc-76f6-4f68-8ab0-7956b4ec1d34',

it helps me a lot! And that tool can do even more.

2️⃣ atob and btoa

Another use case. You need to look up your database password from the kubernetes secret. Oh, crap, it's base64 there. Let's google base64 decode. NO! Wrong answer ❌. We can use JavaScript functions atob and btoa and do not post our secrets online. Just open the web console and run:

atob("WW91IGFyZSBhd2Vzb21lIQ==")

(yes, you are)

⬛️ Which text manipulation tools do you use? Please, share, I'm curious.