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Mini-Parsers is a Java API for parsing short discrete text strings into native types where a single type may have multiple textual representations.
This is useful for supporting command line argument values piped or pasted from different sources, data entry validation, or normalizing data in a column during data cleansing and ETL.
For example, the same instant in time (java.time.Instant) may have multiple formats. The two strings 1423526400000
and 2015-02-10T02:04:30+00:00 are equivalent if the first is interpreted as the milliseconds since the epoch.