Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

transformy.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 151 posts

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

#63

Post by pravj »

Nice tool and concept dude.

But it doesn't seems to look properly at the meaning of content though.

I mean, I think it just finds the first presence of what the given pattern is and generates the result.

For example, I attempted this, with input data as date/time.

input data:

  2015-09-15T09:15:17-05:00
  1998-11-05T08:15:21-05:00
  1999-01-03T04:33:30-05:00
  2000-11-05T09:16:00-05:00
pattern:

  09:15 on 09-15
result:

  09:15 on 09-15
  11:05 on 11-05
  01:03 on 01-03
  11:05 on 11-05
What I was expecting:

  09:15 on 09-15
  08:15 on 11-05
  04:33 on 01-03
  09:16 on 11-05
Although I helped it at certain level by using the same special character pattern the input data has.

And as I was afraid, it doesn't handle special characters, neither uses them in the process either, as @j2kun has mentioned in a comment.

But, it is promising at some point and have nice use cases too. :)

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

#69

Post by SilasX »

pravj wrote: post #63

Nice tool and concept dude. But it doesn't seems to look properly at the meaning of content though. I mean, I think it just finds the first presence of what the given pattern is and generates the result. For example, I attempted this, with input data as date/time. input data: 2015-09-15T09:15:17-05:00 1998-11-05T08:15:21-05:00 1999-01-03T04:33:30-05:00 2000-11-05T09:16:00-05:00 pattern: 09:15 on 09-15 result: 09:15 o…

Shouldn't be hard to update it to allow a second example row to be given so as to disambiguate. Alternatively, just expect the user to give a more perspicuous example of what they want. (I like that word, sorry.)
Post reply on HN