Text to table

Features
1

Hello,
I’m looking for a plugin, or the feature, to have the possibility to convert text to table (markdown ou html).

I looked for the existing plugin, but I did not find something like this. Did I have missed one plugin witch do that or not ?
Is it a usefull request ?

Regards

2

@Desmoric welcome to the forum.

The Paste Special plugin lets you paste CSV text files as Markdown tables. Is that suitable?

3

thank you for your welcome :slight_smile: and your answer

Paste special is a possibility I tested. This plugin is usefull when a table is already exist.

I would liki to know if another solution can be used when a text is writed directly in Joplin.

4

How does your text look like? If it's not separated by any special characters (e. g. tab, comma) already, you will need some custom plugin most likely.

5

Because I write my own text, I can do what I want (tab, comma) to make table easyer to do like :
word 1,word 2
or
word1;word2
or
word1 word2

It doesn’t matter, I can do what the plugin or feature need.

6

In that case, @Desmoric

  1. if you type:
column A, column B
value A1, value B1
value A2, value B2
  1. copy (or cut) the text
  2. and use Edit -> Paste Special -> CSV as Table (assuming that you have the Paste Special plugin installed)
  3. the plugin will paste in your note the table:
| column A |  column B | 
| --- | --- | 
| value A1 |  value B1 | 
| value A2 |  value B2 |

which renders as:

column A column B
value A1 value B1
value A2 value B2
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7

Thank you for this exeamples, it's really what I wanted :ok_hand:

I tried and I think it's a good solution for me.