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What problem are you solving? #71
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Hi, thanks for checking out TextQL. If you have an issue with the software, please feel free to open a new issue. I don't believe this is a bug report, but instead I guess you're trying to ask a question "what's the point of TextQL?" The point is that I wrote it to solve a problem I had; I wanted a fast way to access a text file using SQL statements, without having to create a database in Postgres/MySQL. I also had issues using Excel or Open Office via the command line, and couldn't push huge files to a cloud service for processing. That's it. Every feature in TextQL I added because I ran into a real problem using text delimited files and needed to solve it. I opened sourced TextQL because I felt that these were common problems. It turns out, many people have found TextQL useful because those same problems have bothered them as well. If your delimited file has mis-aligned rows, TextQL will read it. It tries to be liberal in what it accepts and strict in it's output. There are many other competing projects out there, including the one which you just wrote. There are others in Perl, Python, etc. Some have more features, some have less. Unrelated; your code here is a screenshot, might I suggest you make it open source? The other projects all vary in features being offered. None of them; as far as I know, offer what TextQL does. I wanted those features, so I added them to TextQL. If you don't want/need them, feel free to use your software, or any other software. Thanks again for looking at TextQL. |
I have read #62 and https://github.com/dinedal/textql#key-differences-between-textql-and-sqlite-importing. How about this shell script?
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