[PSA] generative AI: a cure for your regex woes?

[Flynn, Ted@DWR]

Hey all,

Just wanted to share my great success using generative AI (ChatGPT in this case) to conquer a thorny foe: regular expressions. I wanted to pull three-letter station names out of a string like “DRIFT_ANH_2019_01_25” using stringR and couldn’t come up with a regex pattern using my limited knowledge of the subject.

 

Enter our new AI overlords. Soon my timid query of “write a regular expression to return the characters after the string ‘DRIFT_’ and before ‘_’” was turned into (?<=DRIFT_)[^_]+ faster than you can say “gee I hope we all still have jobs in 5 years.”

 

Hope this helps!

 

- Ted

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[Kyle Hardage]

I had similar success pulling N characters before and after special characters to extract units from a long string of EPA methods. Good stuff.

I did find that ChatGPT added extra brackets to my expression that stringr would not evaluate, so it took some playing around to get the right result. Still a great starting point though!

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[Alstad, Karrin@Wildlife]

RE conversations with ChatGPT:   I have been fighting with a formatting problem when exporting from bookdown:rs4_book to html ,, and asking Chat for feedback in so many different ways; nothing was correct..   I have *finally* just figured out what the problem was…   And now I wonder… do I go back and inform Chat of the solution? 

(I am not going to.. I think we need some time apart)

😉ka

 

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