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I used to do migrations between library systems, and often they'd export from the old system as CSV. One rule I gave them was "never open this file in excel", because they'd always try to be helpful by tidying something and I'd end up with scientific notation ISBNs, dates that were in one form if they could be coerced into US-style infix, otherwise left in the original form, barcodes losing zeros, etc. etc.



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