Oh, I&#x27;m not taking you as annoying at all. I&#x27;m just having a hard time sussing where you&#x27;re coming from. As a multi-decade veteran of the industry, to <i>me</i> the answer seems obvious. I want to explain in appropriate terms, but I don&#x27;t want to condescend, either.<p>Anyway, to get to the heart of it, you just deal with it. I don&#x27;t even find it annoying, it is what it is. It&#x27;s like being annoyed by the fact that elephants have long noses. It is truly, after all, what most of us here do for a living. Whether it&#x27;s slapping a one-off regex on a log file to get the currency format right, or sucking down JSON from a REST API and presenting it in a nice mobile UI to tell you when your Uber will be here, we take data and munge it, then put a pretty face on it. So were I to have to deal with currency formats in a text file that don&#x27;t match what the machine expects, I just transform it appropriately without thought to &quot;annoyance&quot; or &quot;inconvenience&quot;, just that it needs to be done.