Detabulator

Extract columnar data from tabulated fixed-width text.

Example

Given some tabulated data:

sample = <<END
            Column 1    Column 2
Drinks      Beer        Whiskey
Not drinks  Toothpaste  Mouthwash
END

This:

require "detabulator"
Detabulator.new.detabulate(sample)

Will produce this:

[["", "Column 1", "Column 2"],
 ["Drinks", "Beer", "Whiskey"],
 ["Not drinks", "Toothpaste", "Mouthwash"]] 

This is just a first release that does something useful.

Limitations

• Double-width characters (e.g. Japanese) are not handled correctly.
• Combining diacritics are not handled correctly.
• When one cell contains much longer text and a space, an extra column is generated.