> Let me throw in some assumptions here

The point of the OP is that he wanted an "AI/heuristic/statistical tool" do those assumptions for him to (semi-)automatically parse that table or provide good enough code to be adjusted in retrospect. °

I believe you that the NAI in your brain can solve this, but that's a very different (and interesting) problem class.²

Actually I think it's possible to combine statistics and a Tk visualization for adjustment, for finally wizard out an import script.

The first obstacle would be to have sufficient training data, which is already putting me off, because that problem wouldn't pay off in my daily work-life. (well it might reduce traffic in the monastery considerably tho ;-)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) quote:

> 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?

²) no offence meant, in case you are actually an AI ... ;-)

In reply to Re^6: Module for parsing tables from plain text document by LanX
in thread Module for parsing tables from plain text document by GrandFather

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