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Wyrd Smythe's avatar

Indeed. I can attest to lots of Python code for cleaning up dirty data.

I don't use/have MS Office, so I usually jump directly to a CSV or TAB file, if available. I've even had to edit my "csvfile" class to handle the broken CSV generated by WordPress (they don't handle fields with embedded double-quotes at all according to RFC 4180).

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Richard Careaga's avatar

If only so much of everyone else’s data didn’t come via spreadsheet, I’d have no need of Libre Calc. When VisiCalc was described as a “killer app,” we had no idea how much collateral damage it would inflict.

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Wyrd Smythe's avatar

Heh, yeah. Then Lotus 1-2-3 came along and killed the killer app and became the default software for office people everywhere for everything. People used to write letters using it. 🤯

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