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Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

#11
Afaik, "LeBron" is his first name. The way you use it (and misspell it) is confusing, I'd suggest you replace him with a simpler alternative (Kobe Bryant? Tim Duncan? whatever).

Same for Kagawa -- the Japanese use surnames in a different way, might be simpler to replace him.

Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

#15
Amazing tool.

Feature requests: allow for more than one example.

    Input:
    {"class": "101", "students": 101}
    {"class": "201", "students": 80}
    {"class": "202", "students": 50}
    {"class": "301", "students": 120}

    Example:
    Class 101 has 101 students

    Output:
    Class 101 has 101 students
    Class 201 has 201 students
    Class 202 has 202 students
    Class 301 has 301 students
Right now the first line cannot have any ambiguity. This is fixable by reordering, but with large enough data sets I may have some ambiguity in all lines, at different places. Multiple examples would fix that.

Again, loved the tool. I can see this going very far, specially with non-technical people.

Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

#18
post #4

I hope you sell your IP to Microsoft Excel. This would be a major time saver feature for a lot of the Excel world.

This is already in Excel as FlashFill, so don't know if you're being sarcastic. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/

Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

#19
post #9

Amongst other things this can be used for cleaning tables/lists from special characters, changing date formats and creating xml or json. Feedback and suggestions are very much welcome! We plan on adding a few more features soon as right now it is fairly basic but would like to hear some opinions and see if there's people out there that have a use for this.

This is really neat! Any chance this will be a cli tool or module/library? It doesn't seem to play will with something like this as an input: 3, Roberto/Carlos, soccer, Brazil 35, Roberto/Carlos Michael Jordan, baseball, USA 6, Roberto/Carlos James Lebron, basketball, USA 10, Roberto/Carlos Shinji Kagawa, soccer, Japan Format: 3, ROBERTO/CARLOS, soccer, Brazil Gives me: 3, ROBERTO/CARLOS, soccer, Brazil 35, ROBERTO/C…

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Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

#20
I love the product.

I have a small piece of feedback on the site. You could make it a tiny bit clearer that this is a free, registration free, service which people can start using with just one click.

When I first visited the site, I looked it over, noticed the email box and the "get started" and just assumed it was a library I'd need to buy. It wasn't until I came back to the comments here that I realised the site was a service (which is actually extremely useful to me, and it has been bookmarked).

Why not just make http://www.transformy.io/#/app your homepage instead?

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