from tsv for formats
Parse text as .tsv and create table.
Signature
> from tsv {flags}
Flags
-
--comment, -c {string}: A comment character to ignore lines starting with it. -
--quote, -q {string}: A quote character to ignore separators in strings, defaults to '"'. -
--escape, -e {string}: An escape character for strings containing the quote character. -
--noheaders, -n: Don't treat the first row as column names. -
--flexible: Allow the number of fields in records to be variable. -
--no-infer: No field type inferencing. -
--trim, -t {string}: Drop leading and trailing whitespaces around headers names and/or field values.
Input/output types:
| input | output |
|---|---|
| string | table |
Examples
Convert tab-separated data to a table.
> "ColA ColB 1 2" | from tsv ╭───┬──────┬──────╮ │ # │ ColA │ ColB │ ├───┼──────┼──────┤ │ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │ ╰───┴──────┴──────╯
Convert comma-separated data to a table, allowing variable number of columns per row and ignoring headers.
> "value 1 value 2 description 2" | from tsv --flexible --noheaders ╭───┬─────────┬───────────────╮ │ # │ column0 │ column1 │ ├───┼─────────┼───────────────┤ │ 0 │ value 1 │ ❎ │ │ 1 │ value 2 │ description 2 │ ╰───┴─────────┴───────────────╯
Create a tsv file with header columns and open it.
> $'c1(char tab)c2(char tab)c3(char nl)1(char tab)2(char tab)3' | save tsv-data | open tsv-data | from tsv
Create a tsv file without header columns and open it.
> $'a1(char tab)b1(char tab)c1(char nl)a2(char tab)b2(char tab)c2' | save tsv-data | open tsv-data | from tsv --noheaders
Create a tsv file without header columns and open it, removing all unnecessary whitespaces.
> $'a1(char tab)b1(char tab)c1(char nl)a2(char tab)b2(char tab)c2' | save tsv-data | open tsv-data | from tsv --trim all
Create a tsv file without header columns and open it, removing all unnecessary whitespaces in the header names.
> $'a1(char tab)b1(char tab)c1(char nl)a2(char tab)b2(char tab)c2' | save tsv-data | open tsv-data | from tsv --trim headers
Create a tsv file without header columns and open it, removing all unnecessary whitespaces in the field values.
> $'a1(char tab)b1(char tab)c1(char nl)a2(char tab)b2(char tab)c2' | save tsv-data | open tsv-data | from tsv --trim fields
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