StriSynth: synthesis for live programming

Abstract

Motivated by applications in automating repetitive file manipulations, we present a tool called StriSynth, which allows end-users to perform transformations over data using examples. Based on provided examples, our tool automaticallygenerates scripts for non-trivial file manipulations. Although the current focus of StriSynth are file manipulations, it implements a more general string transformation framework. This framework builds on and further extends the functionality of Flash Fill -- a Microsoft Excel extension for string transformations. An accompanying video to this paper is available at the following website http://youtu.be/kkDZphqIdFM.