Show HN: A simple algorithm for drawing complex tables

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25 pointsSnaipe6 comments

Author here. This was fun to make, although I'm sure this algorithm is absolutely nothing new.

An implementation of this for rendering tables as rst-style ascii is available here: https://github.com/Snaipe/table2ascii

As always, suggestions are welcome.

Great tutorial with pictures! I'd like to see the tutorial for ascii2table too.

This is great, but not a "Show HN".

Why is it not a "Show HN"?

"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. ... For example, blog posts ... can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

The example code is on GitHub (linked at the end of the post), so you can try it out.

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