code: def _DataClean_(fieldVal):
      
  
      fieldValNew = fieldVal
  
      fieldValNew = fieldValNew.upper()
  
      fieldValNew = fieldValNew.strip()
  
      fieldValNew = re.sub("[\s\n\t]+", " ", fieldValNew)
  
      return fieldValNew
docs: Return 'cleaned' value to standardize lookups (convert to uppercase, remove leading/trailing whitespace, carriage returns, line breaks, and unprintable characters)
  
      :param string fieldVal: field value