I ran another check, and there is serious reason to like and use org-mode!
org-mode did to the automatic clean up on that column when I saved the org
table file with emacs. I find this to be very helpful.
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I wrote a table in org-mode and a certain column in that table should have
all content entries starting in character position 32. I ran cut on the
table and sent output to another file in order to inspect my work and
found at least one line of the table for that column had content starting
in
