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Spreadsheet Data Manipulation Using Examples

By Sumit Gulwani, William R. Harris, Rishabh Singh
Communications of the ACM, August 2012, Vol. 55 No. 8, Pages 97-105
10.1145/2240236.2240260
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Millions of computer end users need to perform tasks over large spreadsheet data, yet lack the programming knowledge to do such tasks automatically. We present a methodology that allows end users to automate such repetitive tasks.

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Anonymous

July 29, 2012 01:53

The technology described in Section 3 of this article (namely, syntactic string transformations) will ship as part of the Flash Fill feature in Excel 2013.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/flashfill.html

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