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Data Mining From Unstructured Text: How to Turn Messy Inputs Into Clean Datasets

Learn what data mining means in simple words and how to mine unstructured text for real insights. Extract numbers, dates, emails, and signal-carrying lines from messy logs, chats, and documents using browser-based tools like Extract Numbers, Extract Dates, Extract Emails, Keep Lines Matching, and Remove Lines Matching.

How to Minify, Pretty-Print & Clean Code Safely (HTML/CSS/JS/XML)

Learn how to safely minify, pretty-print, and clean HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML without breaking production. Practical workflows using JS Minify, CSS Minify, HTML Pretty/Minify, and XML Pretty/Minify — plus related cleanup tools for robust, readable, and performant code.

Zero-Width Characters: The Invisible Bug That’s Breaking Your Code

Find and remove zero-width spaces, BOMs, and bidi controls that break parsers and make diffs lie. Practical detection, Unicode normalization, CI guardrails, and quick fixes using your on-site tools: Remove Invisible Unicode, Zero-Width/Bidi Remover, and Unicode Normalizer.