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Often data is produced by one program, in the wrong format for later use by another program or person. In these situations another program can be written to parse and transform the original data into a format useful to the other. The term "Data Munging" is [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22data+munging%22 often] used in programming circles for this task.
A [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.awk/msg/0ecba3a3fbf247d8?hl=en request] on the comp.lang.awk newsgroup lead to a typical data munging task:
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The data is [http://www.eea.europa.eu/help/eea-help-centre/faqs/how-do-i-obtain-eea-reports free to download and use] and is of this format:
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1991-03-30 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1
1991-03-31 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 10.000 1 20.000 1 20.000 1 20.000 1 35.000 1 50.000 1 60.000 1 40.000 1 30.000 1 30.000 1 30.000 1 25.000 1 20.000 1 20.000 1 20.000 1 20.000 1 20.000 1 35.000 1
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