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		joepvd on Aug 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pylsy: Python library to represent tabular data in... Cool! Sorry for the plug, but this gawk program does something similar: https://github.com/joepvd/table Field splitting can be defined with all of (g)awks possibilities. Features different styles, among which unicode table borders.

networked on Aug 31, 2015 [–]

Nice utility! I've written a quick clone of it in Tcl for use on systems without GNU Awk: http://wiki.tcl.tk/41682.

joepvd on Aug 31, 2015 | [–]

Aha! That must have been the first time I have tried to read Tcl for more than a minute :) Looks like one can prototype fast in this language. Thanks for writing / posting!

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