Text to table

Desmoric · 2024-10-10T09:52:34.916Z

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

dpoulton · 2024-10-10T12:59:09.406Z

@Desmoric welcome to the forum.

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

Desmoric · 2024-10-10T14:08:10.807Z

thank you for your welcome 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.

Marph · 2024-10-10T14:22:25.014Z

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.

Desmoric · 2024-10-11T09:55:49.280Z

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.

shikuz · 2024-10-11T12:30:19.619Z

In that case, @Desmoric

if you type:

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

copy (or cut) the text
and use Edit -> Paste Special -> CSV as Table (assuming that you have the Paste Special plugin installed)
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

Desmoric · 2024-10-17T14:53:27.481Z

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

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