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A practical workflow for cleaning CSV data before JSON export

CSV files often arrive with duplicate records, inconsistent column names, blank required fields, mixed date formats, email whitespace, and encoding issues. A dependable cleanup workflow is: preserve the original; standardize headers; trim and normalize values; parse dates to ISO-8601; validate required fields; deduplicate using stable business keys; then export both a clean CSV and JSON for downstream systems.

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This is an optional paid service; the workflow above is usable independently.

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