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Is there a tool (ideally command-line-based) that can help in converting the source to HTML tables into “graphical text” (think perhaps ASCII art for HTML tables) for use in code comments, as show below? For example, given the following HTML table source <TABLE BORDER=1> <CAPTION>A test table with merged cells</CAPTION> <TR><TH ROWSPAN=2><TH COLSPAN=2>Average <TH ROWSPAN=2>other<BR>category<TH>Misc <TR><TH>height<TH>weight <TR><TH ALIGN=LEFT>males<TD>1.9<TD>0.003 <TR><TH ALIGN=LEFT ROWSPAN=2>females<TD>1.7<TD>0.002 </TABLE> the tool would output something like the following to be embedded into

I have a number of possibly overlapping rectangles, of random size and position within a fixed plane. Since these rectangles are random, some may not overlap: |----- | | |----| |----| | | |----| Some may overlap by just one corner: |-----| | |--|--| |--|--| | |-----| Some may be contained inside another rectangle: |----------------| | | | |-----| | | | | | | |-----| | |----------------| Some may pass through another rectangle: |----------------| | | |--|-------------------| | | | | |--|-------------------| |----------------| etc. I'm trying to find an algorithm that gives me a set of

Are there any algorithms that would find the following ASCII-art image? + + +++ +++++++ ++ ++ ++ + ++ ++ +++ ++ ++ + ++ ++ ++ +++++++ +++ Inside the following body of text? complete_file_here + + + ++ + +++ + + + ++ + + ++++ + + + + + + +++ +++ + + + + ++ ++ ++ + ++ + + + + + + ++ + ++ + + + ++ ++ + + ++++++ + + + ++ + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + ++ + ++ + + + + +++ + ++ + + + +++ + + ++ + +++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + + + ++ + + + ++ I must highlight the ASCII art image in yellow which corresponds to the complete shape. See the picture attached: I have to search a file which

Is there any sort of utility I can use to convert an image to ASCII and then print it in my terminal? I looked for one but couldn't seem to find any. A program called cacaview allows you to do this. It is interactive, allowing you to pan, zoom, and change display modes. ( Full size image ) Try using the Google-Ninja before asking! I found cacaview and aview . more simply, you may use img2txt from the caca library ( cacaview is an image browser and opens a new window, which is not what is asked here I guess); For instance : $ img2txt /Users/foo/pool/libs/ipython/docs/resources/ipynb_icon

I would like it to display non-flickery animation like this awesome Linux command; sl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GyMZKWjcYU I would appreciate a small & stupid example of say ... a fly. Thanks! Just use Console.SetCursorPosition for moving the cursor to a certain position, then Console.Write a character. Before each frame you have to delete the previous one by overwriting it with spaces. Heres a little example I just built: class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { char[] chars = new char[] { '.', '-', '+', '^', '°', '*' }; for (int i = 0; ; i++) { if (i != 0) { // Delete the

I am trying to print below star pattern * *** ***** *** * I am using below logic to print : * *** ***** Code for first half: int i, j; for (i = 1; i <= 3; i++) { for (j = 1; j <= i; j++) System.out.print("*"); for (j = i - 1; j >= 1; j--) System.out.print("*"); System.out.println(); } But still I am not sure about how to print the whole structure. Slimu You just have to write in reverse the loop, to start from the upperBound - 1. See the code bellow: int numberOfLines = 3; for (int i = 1; i <= numberOfLines; i++) { for (int j = 1; j < 2*i; j++){ System.out.print("*"); } System.out.println(); }