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Transforming JSON to Tables: the Impedance Problem

Dec 6th, 2023

This is a note from 2022 I found by accident today. Teaser: It will become relevant again, soon, so I want to share the rough idea with you today. JSON data containing nested object lists within object lists, namely, arrays of objects within other arrays, cannot be mapped directly to a 2D table representation.

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Sorting Markdown Tables by Column from the Shell

May 8th, 2017

TableFlip doesn’t sort tables by column as of yet. So we all have to resort to other solutions – like shell or Terminal commands. Let’s say your (Multi)Markdown table starts with a header (=2 rows) and has leading pipes like this: You can sort the table by the 3rd column (column “c”) like so: Explanation:

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