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Feb 25, 2007

I have an excel sheet with approx 30,000 rows of data.

These are all keyword phrases.

They can be related to any subject, but for this example these are related to the root keyword phrase of "car Rent"

I have some software which basically pulls in keyword phrases from search engines and meta tags etc, including misspelled keyword phrases.

My problem;

The data is uncleaned.

In other words there might be I think it's called "Carriage return" data in there, so the row of data might be very deep (Instead of a row height of say 10.5 it could be anything, IE some could be 100 or 200 even).

There are unwanted characters, for example; ()[]{}+?!""^*

(If it could delete all unwanted characters except for letters/digits)
There is a problem I see, that if it removes _ or - between words, that it will join the words together which won't be of any use. If it deletes anything with a letter either side of it or a letter and digit, or 2 digits, 1 either side it would then need to add a space to replace the hyphen.

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