clean_table
Messy CSV → tidy CSV, with a report of every change
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Tidies a spreadsheet export: removes duplicate rows, trims whitespace (half-width and full-width — Chinese exports are full of ), unifies the half-dozen ways a cell can say "empty" (NA / null / - / 无), drops empty rows and columns, and can split one column into several. Returns the cleaned CSV plus exactly what changed: rows in, rows out, duplicates removed, cells trimmed per column. It can also transpose rows/columns and unpivot a wide table into a long one. The row arithmetic is verified in code — if in − removed ≠ out, the response says so instead of handing back a table nobody can check. Use when a CSV came out of Excel or an export and needs cleaning before analysis.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | no | Link to the CSV. Provide this or text. |
| text | string | no | The CSV content itself. Provide this or url. |
| ops | string | no | Comma-separated, default "dedupe,trim,drop_empty,unify_blank". Also available: split_column, transpose (swap rows/columns), wide_to_long (unpivot a wide table into the long format analysis tools expect). |
| keep | string | no | For wide_to_long: comma-separated id columns to keep as-is. Defaults to the first column. |
| split_column | string | no | Column name to split (requires ops to include split_column). |
| split_by | string | no | Separator to split on, default a single space. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Link to the CSV. Provide this or text."
},
"text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The CSV content itself. Provide this or url."
},
"ops": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Comma-separated, default \"dedupe,trim,drop_empty,unify_blank\". Also available: split_column, transpose (swap rows/columns), wide_to_long (unpivot a wide table into the long format analysis tools expect)."
},
"keep": {
"type": "string",
"description": "For wide_to_long: comma-separated id columns to keep as-is. Defaults to the first column."
},
"split_column": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Column name to split (requires ops to include split_column)."
},
"split_by": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Separator to split on, default a single space."
}
}
}