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Count words in a list of titles, with some cleanup
I have a list of article titles, where I wish to count the number of occurrences for each word (and remove some words and characters). The input is in a .csv file where the titles are in column '...
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String Similarity using fuzzywuzzy on big data
I have a file in which I was to check the string similarity within the names in a particular column. I use fuzzywuzzy token sort ratio algorithm as it is required for my use case. here is the code, is ...
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Compare two CSV files In Ruby
I wrote my first program in Ruby that compares two CSV files, but I'm sure there are more efficient ways to do it. I tried using the Ruby CSV library at first, but it was unproductive. Please let me ...
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Replacing address details in colon delimited string
I'm sanitising personal data in a large database with a series of Regular Expressions. In many cases the sensitive data is in a colon-delimited field within a CSV file.
Here is a sample:
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Splitting apart a comma separated list
I have a system that outputs a comma separated string into a single column. I need to grab the individual values out of that list. The list could have random spaces and commas that need to be ...
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Replacing data in a .csv file
The code works well and does what I intend for it to do. In essence, it opens a file referenced as 'resource'. This is a .csv file. I then searches for the keys in the dictionary and for each key that ...
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Parsing a single CSV line into a list of strings
I've written this method to replace an older method that was much simpler, but used the regex split method and couldn't tell if a comma was in quotes/brackets/etc. and didn't read double quotes as ...
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Optimising single-delimiter string tokenisation
I am trying to optimise my tokenizing of tab delimited strings:
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Splitting and printing comma-separated values
I stumbled upon a question on SO asking how to split a comma-separated string into individual values.
Since it's been a while since I've had any good reason to write C I'd like to ask for some ...
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String modification application
Below is working code of a semi complete program. Its purpose is to take an input string of any type and modify it based on rules defined for each type. So in this example I pass it a string in CSV ...
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Speeding up and fixing phone numbers from CSVs with Regex
I've hodgepodged together an attempt to extract all phone numbers from all CSVs in a directory, regardless of where they are and what format they're in. I want all phone numbers to be printed to a ...
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Cutting strings into smaller ones based on specific criteria
I've got this largish (for me) script, and I want to see if anybody could tell me if there are any ways to improve it, both in terms of speed, amount of code and the quality of the code. I still ...
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Reading in a file and performing string manipulation
In a question I answered I posted the following code:
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Generating CSV strings for various 3rd party utilities
I'm generating CSV strings for various 3rd party utilities and this section of code gets repeated in many classes. Is there a better way to generate this string?
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