In this chapter, various recipes for manipulating files and data streams across many formats are presented. The chapter contains the following recipes related to data processing:
- Managing streams, and reading and writing files
- Using IOBuffer to efficiently work with in-memory streams
- Fetching data from the internet
- Writing a simple RESTful service
- Working with JSON data
- Working with date and time
- Using object serialization in Julia
- Running Julia as a background process
- Reading and writing Microsoft Excel files
- Handling Feather data
- Reading CSV and FWF files