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sherburt3 2 days ago

Reviewing the individual formulas in an excel report is psychotic. Normally what I would do when checking someone elses work for errors is spot check a couple of the values in a column and calculate them by hand to see if they matched up. Either that or just implement the step myself in excel and see if I got the same output.

That's a lot like reviewing someone's regular expression. Like I'm not going to read through a 100 character regex to see if it matches semantic versions, I'm just gonna pull it up on a regular expression tester and see if it does what it should.

fodkodrasz 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I have just recently learned there is a great feature for this, which I really miss in LibreOffice, since I came to know it exists:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/display-the-relati...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Excel/see-links-between-...

These really helped me to review low-to-mid complexity sheets where inserted rows and incorrectly copied formulas messed up stuff.

eviks 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Like I'm not going to read through a 100 character regex to see if it matches semantic versions, I'm just gonna pull it up on a regular expression tester and see if it does what it should.

How? Do you have all the values from the semantic versions lying around for a comprehensive test in the engine?

But also those 100 chars can be in 10 lines with comments, so you can fire the engine on specific parts to help with verification