#TEXTWRANGLER CONVERT TABS TO SPACES CODE#

If you think your code is correct, then select all of your code ( Cmd-a ) and then choose Text::Entab in TextWrangler to convert all of your white space to tabs or Text::Detab to. Now this was not a fully working solution. Press F1 and look for the command Untabify and hit Enter or press Ctrl-T Ctrl-U. Note that Python considers tabs and white space to be different things, which is sometimes hard to debug because all of your code looks correct to you on your screen. Replace whitespaces with a single space but delete all tabs. We recommend bind to keyboard shortcuts if you need to convert indentation frequently. You can use both command palette or keyboard shortcuts to converts indentation. The new text will appear in the box at the bottom of the page. Converts indentation from tab or 4 spaces into 2 spaces. While the interface of TextWrangler doesn't provide that option I found this Paste your text in the box below and then click the button to trim whitespace characters. And we still have some t-shirts left, too.I was looking for a way to compare two documents ignoring the whitespace in TextWrangler. We know that data entry is neither fun nor exciting (well, most of the time), but think of this: you'll be part of a project that will provide a great service to journalists, researchers and citizens. Or you can fork the Mississippi results repository on Github and send us an email per the instructions in the README file. If you'd like to try your hand at a Mississippi fileВ (or another state with PDFs)В let us know in the Google Group and we can get you setup. Which is where you come in, if you're up for it.

#TEXTWRANGLER CONVERT TABS TO SPACES MANUAL#

For our Mississippi files, we've developed a guide to the process that we'll adapt to other states where manual entry is required.

When it comes to doing data entry, we need to be very specific about what we want and how we want it stored in the CSV file. Here's what we're dealing with: a scanned image of a fax: Data entry is the best way for us to get precinct-level results that are contained in county-by-county files like this one.

In Mississippi, however, there's are noВ programmatic options, or at least no good ones.

#TEXTWRANGLER CONVERT TABS TO SPACES UPDATE#

To its credit, the office responded quickly and is in the process of fixing the original files (and we'll update our CSVs when they do). I think TextMate may spare you any troubles. In the process of converting these results, we found several apparent errors (typos or likely copy and paste mistakes) and notified the Secretary of State's office. In these cases, I say, why not take the safe road, don't introduce any strange characters, don't convert tabs to spaces, or spaces to tabs, all things that can happen if you open the file in TextEdit, TextWrangler, or any GUI based editing app.

We used TextWrangler, a free text editor for the Mac, to convert the spaces between columns into tabs, and from there it was trivial to copy results into CSV files. To convert several spaces to a tab character, interject the following in your pipeline: sed -E s/ +//g.

$ pdftotext -layoutВ 2000 House of Rep Pri.pdf Here's an example command that generates a fixed-width text file while preserving the rows and column format of the original file:

For West Virginia, xPDF was all we needed (along with some search and replace in a text editor) to make CSV files from the original PDFs. The command-line utility pdftotext from the xPDFВ package works well in many cases, while the excellent TabulaВ (a product of ProPublica, La NaciГіnВ and the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project) can do wonders with more complex files. and TextWrangler (I think) have options to auto-convert tabs to spaces.

#TEXTWRANGLER CONVERT TABS TO SPACES PDF#

For states that provide electronically-generated PDFs, like West Virginia does for elections from 2000-2006, there are several good options for parsing PDF tables into data. e.g., these two calls have no tab space in vcf and in excel they appear in one. This isn't a glamorous job, but we'd like to tell you a little about how we go about it. For states where data isn't the norm, OpenElections needs to fill the gap, turning results into data. Others, like Mississippi, basically provide a picture of the results. Some have made the transition from producing PDFs to CSVs, such as West Virginia. Idaho has multiple files covering different reporting levels.Д«ut that's not every state. Configure to convert tabs to 4 spaces : Notepad++ : Settings->Preference->Language. In Pennsylvania, we found that for $7 the state provides a CD with 12 years of consistently formatted results.

#TEXTWRANGLER CONVERT TABS TO SPACES DOWNLOAD#

Florida has a download for every election. Some states provide results data in multiple formats and variations all you have to do is choose and click. As our volunteers have gathered details on the scope and availability of election results from across the country, one thing became clear: not all election results are created equal.

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