Table to string

[nxfxcom]

Hello,

I have a Knime data table, which is standard stuff! I want to convert that into a plain text table with comma or space separation. Today, I manually copy it from the Table Viewer and then paste it into the 1st cell of a table creator or string configuration. How can I do it via nodes?

[Santanico23]

Hello @nxfxcom,

Could you upload a dataset with a few rows of your data. It should be possible to achieve what you are trying here.

[takbb]

Hi @nxfxcom , you might want to check out these components.

Clipboard Writer (forum table format) – takbb

Table to Markdown (clipboard) – takbb

They were designed to write to clipboard but also to a flow variable, which may be of use. Further reading on these on the following thread

How to copy the output of a node

Hi @pierrelouis , depending on your requirements, I have a component that you can attach to a table and it will copy a version of the table to clipboard. It’s designed primarily for producing copies of tables that can be pasted into forum messages, and I added an option for “confluence compatible” too, which actually means “don’t include apostrophes around items which are necessary for it to work with the forum” ;-). Of course whether this is useful to you depends on your needs. There is of c…

Easy creation of formatted "table" on forum posts

If you ever want to paste a copy of your table data into the forum so that it is easy to read, I have a new component just for that purpose: Simply direct the output from your KNIME table to it, and execute the Clipboard Writer, and it writes a copy of the table to clipboard in a format that can be pasted directly into a forum post: [image] You can configure it to limit output to the first n rows, and also filter the columns. For example, executing the workflow pictured results in me bein…

Alternatively, from @iCFO , there is this component:

Table to Cell (AsciiDoc) – icfo

Do any of these help you with what you want to do?

[nxfxcom]

Those are both awesome! Thank you!