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Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Shitesh Saurav, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Peter Schwarz, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00456 (2013.01); G06F 17/245 (2013.01); G06F 17/277 (2013.01); G06K 9/00449 (2013.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatic detection of string and column delimiters in tabular data files are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes detecting (i) candidate column delimiters in a file containing tabular data and (ii) candidate string delimiters in the file containing tabular data; evaluating the likelihood of validity of each possible candidate column delimiter-candidate string delimiter pairing among the detected candidate column delimiters and the detected candidate string delimiters; and outputting, to at least one user, the candidate column delimiter-candidate string delimiter pairing having the highest likelihood of validity.


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