Text to ASCII Table Generator

How it is calculated

The input is split into lines and every non-empty line becomes a row; blank lines are skipped. Each row is split at every comma and each cell is trimmed of surrounding spaces. The number of columns is the largest cell count found in any row, and shorter rows are padded with empty cells. The width of a column is the length, counted in characters, of its longest cell.

Each cell is then written as | text + padding | with one space on both sides, and a border line of + and - (column width plus 2 dashes per column) is drawn above the table and after every row. There is no special header row, so the first line is formatted like all the others. The tool also reports the row count and the column count. Empty input gives no result.

Common mistakes

• Putting a comma inside a value, such as Smith, John or 1,200. Quotes are not understood: every comma starts a new cell, so the row gets an extra column and the other rows are padded.
• Using tabs or semicolons as separators. Only the comma splits cells, so a line like a;b followed by a tab and c stays in a single column.
• Expecting a divider under the header. All rows are drawn the same way, with a border after each one, so the header is not marked specially.
• Pasting wide characters such as emoji or CJK text and expecting perfect alignment. Width is counted per character, but those characters can take two columns in a monospaced font, so the right edge may look ragged.
• Relying on leading or trailing spaces inside a cell. They are removed on purpose, so indentation within a cell is lost.