I'd like to be able to extract tabular data from plain text documents that look something like the sample data below. Perfect would be something smart enough to figure out the columns by "magic", but I don't mind giving hints if required. I don't want to manually count columns if I can avoid it. Do you know of a module that has that sort of foo?

Annular-Total  Eclipse  of  2023 Apr 20 - multisite predictions

                                               1st Contact        
Site               Longitude Latitude  Elvn      U.T.     PA Alt  
                     o   '    o   '       m     h  m  s     o  o  
Auckland           174 45.  -36 55.       0     4 33 59   313 13  
Blenheim           173 55.  -41 35.      30     4 40 34   326 11  
Cape Palliser      175 25.  -41 35.       0     4 42 28   327  9  
Cape Reinga        172 45.  -34 25.      50     4 30 11   307 17  
Carterton          175 35.  -41  5.       0     4 40 35   324 10  
                  
Dannevirke         176  5.  -40 15.     200     4 39  9   321 10  
East Cape          178 35.  -37 45.       0     4 37 58   315 10  
Featherston        175 25.  -41  5.      40     4 40 36   325 10  
Gisborne           178  5.  -38 45.       0     4 38 29   317 10  
Great Barrier Is   175 25.  -36 15.       0     4 34 15   312 13

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The actual table for this example has about five times as many columns!

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Module for parsing tables from plain text document by GrandFather

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