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<p>
A file that contains many lines that are similar to other code within the code base is
problematic for the same reasons as a file that contains a lot of (exactly)
duplicated code.
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<p>
Refactor similar code snippets by extracting common functionality into methods
that can be reused across classes.
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<references> 


<li>Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_code">Duplicate code</a>.</li>
<li>M. Fowler, <em>Refactoring</em>. Addison-Wesley, 1999.</li>


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