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by chaps 820 days ago
My worst nightmare was a semicolon-delimited file. Where one of the columns had hand-typed street names - without quotes.. so "WELLS" was often "WE;;S".

Since it was the only column like that, the # of columns to the left of the annoying column and the # on the right would always stay the same. So it was pretty easy to clean.