Convert Raw Delimited Text to HTML Table and SQL INSERTs

TLDR

Parsing raw text blobs from log files, emails, or terminal output into database tables manually involves tedious string splitting and hand-writing SQL INSERT INTO queries. GINEXYS Table Formatter (TAFNE) Table Mode provides a delimiter text parser (Alt+Shift+T, Alt+Shift+X) that splits raw strings into a clean table grid and exports formatted SQL INSERT statements with automatic quote escaping.

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Step-by-Step Delimited Text Split

1. Paste your raw text blob directly into cell A1 in Table Mode.
2. Press Alt+Shift+T to open the Delimiter Configuration dialog.
3. Select or enter row delimiter (\n) and column delimiter (|, \t, ,).
4. Press Alt+Shift+X to run the split operation.

// Delimiter text parsing logic in parseInputs.js
function parseDelimitedText(rawText, rowDelimiter, colDelimiter) {
    const rows = rawText.split(rowDelimiter);
    return rows.map(r => r.split(colDelimiter).map(cell => cell.trim()));
}

Rule of thumb: set row 1 as column headers before exporting so generated SQL INSERT statements use clean column identifiers.

Exporting Executable SQL INSERT Queries

Click Export -> SQL to generate formatted database seed queries:

-- Generated SQL INSERT script from Table Formatter
INSERT INTO inventory (item_id, item_name, quantity, status) VALUES
('SKU-101', 'Microcontroller Unit', 250, 'In Stock'),
('SKU-102', 'Resistor 10k 0805', 5000, 'In Stock'),
('SKU-103', 'Capacitor 100nF', 0, 'Backordered');

Conclusion

Combining keyboard-shortcut text splitting with direct SQL export makes seeding database tables from raw text dumps effortless.