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All this does is some fancy search and replace. I don't know why it is amazing at all. Using awk is almost as effective.
Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
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Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#32On a similar note: anyone know of a tool for generating SQL queries by example?
Did you know the name "Query by example" was devised for a tool to generate SQL queries?
Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#33This! I wanted this feature to be in every text editor for years :)). Like http://nimbletext.com but show and tell instead of expressions :).
Thanks!!!
Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#34Amongst 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.
Does it work by a general library for learning patterns, or as a collection of heuristics to match common cases?
That difference would change the kind of examples I would try it with, knowing in advance when they're too complex to work.
Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#35In chrome it doesn't work. It never seems to update in real time, only at random long intervals
We're having some problems because of the traffic (we didn't expect reaching the front page) it should be smoother in a little while.
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This is expected behavior. I'm assuming you gave "a 1" as an example? Since your first line didn't contain the number 1, it is repeated over every line.
Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#37Not sure that this is doing what it's supposed to. This series: 11/1/2008, 12/1/2008, 6/1/2009 transformed to this: November 1, 2008, November 1, 2008, November 1, 2009
It didn't work for me either. I guess the someone's friends are downvoting people who find flaws in it!
Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#38Not sure that this is doing what it's supposed to. This series: 11/1/2008, 12/1/2008, 6/1/2009 transformed to this: November 1, 2008, November 1, 2008, November 1, 2009
We don't interpret the data, we only change the format. Since "November" doesn't literally match anything on the first line, it is repeated for each one of them.
Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#39Not sure that this is doing what it's supposed to. This series: 11/1/2008, 12/1/2008, 6/1/2009 transformed to this: November 1, 2008, November 1, 2008, November 1, 2009
It didn't work for me either. I guess the someone's friends are downvoting people who find flaws in it!
See my other comment.
Re: Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example
#40In chrome it doesn't work. It never seems to update in real time, only at random long intervals
We're having some problems because of the traffic (we didn't expect reaching the front page) it should be smoother in a little while.
Ah, so it does the calculations on the server? My bad, I assumed it was calculating everything real time on the client. What is the server written in?