Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel

Re:Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel by ZeroGravitas on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:25AM (#28574168)

This is very cool and I was unaware of this feature.

Are there any open source libraries that perform similar tasks? I can think of a few uses for this in data cleanup as long as it can handle the input not being super clean.

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Re:Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel by sumitgulwani on Sunday September 19, 2021 @05:30PM (#28588108)

Our program synthesis APIs are available publicly, but for non-commercial use only. <https://github.com/microsoft/prose> You want to look for API samples corresponding to Transformation.Text capability. This is a more powerful capability than Flash Fill. If you happen to try this out, we'd be very interested in getting your feedback on whether this is powerful enough to handle your use cases, and if not, we would love to be inspired by your use cases for a future version of this technology. You may reach us at [email protected].

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Re:Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel by Hjfrf on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:44AM (#28574443)

Powershell has the same functionality in Convert-FromString

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Re:Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel by thristian on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:35AM (#28574412)

As I understand it, this technology is heavily patented.

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