been wrestling with some client data all morning and it's a total disaster. they sent over this massive CSV but every single cell in the "notes" column has those annoying hidden newline characters that break my parser. i was about to manually scrub the whole thing which would've taken hours. then i remembered this little trick using a global regex replace in VS Code. you just target the specific whitespace pattern and swap it for a single space.
\n\r?replace with: [space]
it's such a
lifesaver when you're dealing with broken exports. i even use it to strip out those weird non-breaking space characters that look fine but trip up my scripts later.
>the data looks correct in Excelit never actually is.
always check the raw text view anyway, just caught a quick break and figured i'd share this before jumping back into the next task.