HTML Table Reorganiser  HTML Table Reorganiser

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This project outline is not like the artificial tidy problems you are spoon-fed in school, when all the facts you need are included, nothing extraneous is mentioned, the answer is fully specified, along with hints to nudge you toward a single expected canonical solution. This project is much more like the real world of messy problems where it is up to you to fully the define the end point, or a series of ever more difficult versions of this project, and research the information yourself to solve them.

Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; or give you any additional materials. I have too many other projects of my own.

Though I am a programmer, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project in any way you please and to keep all the profits from your endeavor.

Please do not email me about this project without reading the disclaimer above.

This lets you extract an HTML table and reorganise it, e.g. remove a column, transpose two columns, add an empty column, permute the columns. Basically you hand it a tuple: 

java.exe Reorg mytable.html 1 9 3 8 0 0 2
Which means construct me a new table composed of column 1 of the original, then 9, then 3, then a dummy, then another dummy, then column 2. Ignore the rest of the table.

The other thing it can do is transpose, convert the rows to columns and the columns to rows.

I have written a very crude one. I would send it to you by email to help you get started. It uses very primitive parsing. It can’t handle elaborate TD tags.

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