Please make xsv table command optionally output the delimiter about xsv HOT 6 CLOSED

e.g. for this file:
First,Second,Third
10,5,2
5,2,10
2,10,5
10,5,2

output it like this:
First, Second, Third
10, 5, 2
5, 2, 10
2, 10, 5
10, 5, 2

(and optionally aligning colums (without the delimiter) like this (for leftaligning):
First ,Second ,Third
10 ,5 ,2
5 ,2 ,10
2 ,10 ,5
10 ,5 ,2

from xsv.

That doesn't really make sense to me. What is your use case? xsv table is for making CSV files human readable on the console. Keeping the delimiters in the output conflicts with this goal. xsv table's purpose is to replace delimiters with the right number of spaces.

Aside from that, I'm especially unlikely to implement this. The existing command is especially simple because it relies on an implementation of elastic tabstops.

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I am hoping to use xsv if available to arrange csv files within vim. I have a vim CSV plugin, screencast (Look for the :ArrangeCol command) That allows to align csv files and instead of calculating the correct width and aligning it manually, I'd like to use xsv if possible. Because this is faster (which makes a difference for bigger csv files). But this makes only sense, if I can keep the delimiter, and second (optionally) be able to specify how to align certain columns.

from xsv.

That's an impressive plugin!

Honestly, I'm not sure that the command you're after is a good fit for xsv. It seems rather specialized and of limited practical use. If you wanted to write a new command called align as part of xsv and it was simple enough, I'd probably be willing to maintain it. But I think that's about the best I can do.

If I saw an easy way to do this on top of xsv table, then I might do it. But unfortunately, most of the complexity is buried in elastic tabstops which has no knowledge of delimiter separated values.

from xsv.

Okay, thanks. I'll check, if csvkit can help me.

from xsv.

OK, good luck! As far as I know, csvkit's closest thing is csvlook, but it has lots of formatting that probably won't work for you.

You might also consider investigation the column command that is part of util-linux.

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