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by jghn 1071 days ago
I found myself today trying to parse a TSV and substituting a few fields with a different value, then writing the new file out.

Something that perl would excel at, although I used Python. Because Perl isn't as maintainable as Python

I was intrigued by this comment. A JVM solution would also be viable in my tech stack. Would Tika be easier than line processing compiled regexes in Python? I tried looking at the Usage examples but it wasn't clear.