Add a simple read/parse plugin to better handle text data #889
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This adds a simple
read
plugin which can handle a matching pattern. The pattern describes how to handle the text data and convert it to a table.Let's say we had the following file:
Usually, we would turn this into a table using:
With this new command, we can instead give a simple pattern that the data must match. If it does, we take the row of text and convert it to structured data:
The {Name} and {Value} denote where the columns of those names will get their data.
If a line does not match the pattern, its data is not included in the table.