Commarize – publicly available and open-sourced

TL;DR: commarize.com changes multi-line input into the comma-separated output.

Full story: around 6 years ago I created a simple tool to speed up my daily job. The problem was – our Affiliate Manager has been giving me excel file with one column – the IDs of customers to change their affiliate association in the database. There was a simple query behind it:

UPDATE clients
SET affiliate_id = 100001
WHERE id IN (<here goes comma separated list of clients>);

Of course, you can do that somehow in Excel. I often pasted that column to VIM and put the commas using a macro. But that was becoming a hassle, when I’ve been asked a couple times per week, sometimes a day.

I decided to create a simple tool, which looked ugly, but worked just fine.

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