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Handling Unicode Characters in Excel for Text from Hindi Language

Fix garbled Hindi Devanagari text in Excel by importing CSVs via the Text Import Wizard with UTF-8 encoding or pasting through Notepad to resolve character corruption.

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Count Frequency of Words in a Text File: ignore 'person', 'file', not count 'personal', 'personnel', 'personally', 'hypersonic', desired results

Exclude exact words like person and file from word frequency counts while preserving derivatives such as personal and hypersonic.

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Counting Frequency of Words in a Text File: personal, person, personnel, personally, hypersonic

Count exact occurrences of specific words in a text file using grep and wc on Linux, macOS, or WSL.

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Greping Right-to-Left Scripts: Color Results with azoy (oyle) Character

Resolve inaccurate grep searches for Yiddish words by using full Unicode sequences and the --color=always flag to correctly match and highlight right-to-left text.

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Creating a Regex Expression to Extract HS Code: Digits (Exclude Digits*) from a Given Text

Extract HS codes from text while excluding specific digits using regex character classes and word boundaries.

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R gsub Issue: Unintended Word Removal with Column of Replacements

Fix R gsub unintended word removal by using mapply to apply element-wise replacements instead of relying on vector recycling.

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