Kurt Hansen wrote:
To convert tab-separated text lines into a HTML-table:
As you apparently didn't receive answers that worked for you I tried to
get what you want to work and test it in Gedit. Here's the result:
$<
lines = $GEDIT_SELECTED_TEXT.split("\n");
output = '<table\>\n';
max_columns = 0
for line in lines:
col_count = len(line.split("\t"))
if col_count \> max_columns:
max_columns = col_count
for line in lines:
if line == '':
continue
output += '<tr\>';
columns = line.split("\t");
if len(columns) == 1:
output += ('<td colspan=%s\>' % max_columns) + line +
'</td\></tr\>\n'
continue
for item in columns:
output += '<td\>' + item + '</td\>'
output += '</tr\>\n';
output += '</table\>';
return output
>
(Watch out for line wraps! I don't know how to stop Thunderbird from
inserting them.)
It really isn't all that difficult. The code determines the (maximum)
number of columns present. It then processes each line; if one is found
with exactly one column (i.e., no tabs), it applies a colspan equal to
the maximum number of columns. This works for your test and similar data.
As I said, this is copy/pasted from a working Gedit snippet. If it works
for you, I'd try experimenting a bit -- what should happen when the
number of columns is larger than 1 but less than the maximum?
Programming isn't magic. You might start enjoying it.
HTH,
Gertjan.
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