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Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2019-09-19 06:17:22 from the perl-one-liners dept.
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Back in May, writer Jun Wu told in her blog how Perl excels at text manipulation [towardsdatascience.com]. 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.


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