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posted by janrinok on Thursday September 19 2019, @03:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the perl-one-liners dept.

Back in May, writer Jun Wu told in her blog how Perl excels at text manipulation. She often uses it to tidy data sets, a necessity as data is often collected with variations and cleaning it up before use is a necessity. She goes through many one-liners which help make that easy.

Having old reliables is my key to success. Ever since I learned Perl during the dot com bubble, I knew that I was forever beholden to its powers to transform.

You heard me. Freedom is the word here with Perl.

When I'm coding freely at home on my fun data science project, I rely on it to clean up my data.

In the real world, data is often collected with loads of variations. Unless you are using someone's "clean" dataset, you better learn to clean that data real fast.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @04:45PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @04:45PM (#896145)

    When you do not know what you are doing, you should not be touching any datasets.
    When you do know, you have plenty of time-tested tools that you can use, without having to learn a Google-invented bastard language not fit for any other purpose.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:19PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday September 19 2019, @05:19PM (#896171) Journal

    Or, just use the built-in tools and ignore their bastardized language? This tool isn't an online Google service. It seems like your major complaint is Google touched it at one point, so it must be tainted demon spawn?

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @09:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19 2019, @09:56PM (#896274)

      The reason to play point-and-click game every time anew, instead of run a long-ago written oneliner, is ???