Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just one example

Re:Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just... by sytelus on Friday April 24, 2015 @02:27PM (#9435159)

Good concept but doesn't work. Example, type different variations of legal well formatted addresses.

  1 Microsoft Way Apt 43, Redmond, WA 98065, U.S.A.
  1-1/4 Palm Hwy, Colino, MA 87009, USA
  500 Potasium Cloride, Sunshite-Big Blow City, PA 30000, United States of America

First line output should look like:

  1 Redmond 98065 U.S.A.

Also having country-specific obscure sports terminology on landing page example can cause lot of confusion.

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Re:Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just... by z1mm32m4n on Friday April 24, 2015 @09:17PM (#9436780)

Figuring out a format for addresses is actually really hard.

https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...

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Re:Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just... by frevd on Friday April 24, 2015 @02:44PM (#9435277)

Right, marking areas (in this case terms between commas), like Google's Webmaster Tools structured information designer does it, would help. This would require some kind of regular expressions in the example, at least. Of course this would make matters more complicated. This tool excels at simple data sets, I don't think it is meant to be universal.

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Re:Show HN: A tool that transforms your whole list with just... by createmyaccount on Friday April 24, 2015 @07:50PM (#9436577)

We intend to support this in future versions but haven't gotten to it yet. It makes things a little more complicated.

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