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 automatically generates 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.