tablefromascii(1)

📦 version 3.8.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 tablefromascii(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about tablefromascii from the casacore General Commands Manual and honestly? it's giving glow up for your plain text data. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

tablefromascii — convert an ASCII file to a table 🦋

like. it takes your boring little text file and makes it a whole TABLE. main character transformation fr.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tablefromascii input [ ... ]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so this program converts an ASCII table into a table. yes we said table twice, that's the bit. 💅

the one thing you gotta know: it can only handle scalar columns. no fancy nested business, just scalars, periodt. 🙈

and the separator between the fields in your ASCII file? you can specify it yourself. your file, your rules, iykyk. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, no skipping, we're being thorough because that's the vibe:

  • -in [string] — the input ASCII file. yes, the one you're converting. 🍓
  • -out [string] — the name of the output table. name it something cute. 👑
  • -headerfile [string] — name of an optional file that contains the headers. optional bestie, no pressure. 🎀
  • -autoheader [T|F] — determine the header automatically? (T or F; default: F). lowkey it won't do it unless you say so. 🌸
  • -autoshape [string] — the shape, if all the columns are treated as one array. one big array energy. 🌈
  • -columnnames [string] — comma separated names of the columns. commas, bestie, not vibes. 💅
  • -datatypes [string] — comma separated data types of the columns. tell it what each one is. ⭐
  • -sep [string] — one character separator between values. one. single. solitary. 🧚
  • -commentmarker [string] — a regex indicating comments. yes a regex, we're fancy like that. 🔥
  • -firstline [int] — first line to process (default: 1). start at the top, classic. 🦋
  • -lastline [int] — last line to process; a value <0 means it goes till the end (default: -1). so the default is literally "do the whole thing". 💖

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Ole Streicher, with information taken from the source code. iconic behaviour honestly. 🫶

okay and for the cute little sign-off moment: this page is from casacore, dated 2016-11-24, and it's tablefromascii(1). slay, go convert something. 💅✨

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