Add support for tables

markdown.awk

@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ function lstrip(str) {
 	return str;
 }
 
+function strip(str) {
+	gsub(/^ *\n*| *\n*$/, "", str);
+	return str;
+}
+
 function escape_special() {
 	
 }
@@ -429,10 +434,63 @@ function is_metadata(str,    i, lines, line) {
 	return 1;
 }
 
+function col_count(str,    i, count) {
+	count = 0;
+	for (i=1; i<=length(str); i++) {
+		if (substr(str, i, 1) == "|")
+			count++;
+	}
+	return count-1;
+
+}
+function is_table(str,    i, lines, line) {
+	split(str, lines, "\n");
+	num_cols = col_count(lines[1]);
+	if (!match(lines[2], /^([[:space:]]*\|[[:space:]]*-{3,}[[:space:]])*\|[[:space:]]*/)) {
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	for (i=2; i<=length(lines); i++) {
+		line = lines[i];
+
+	    if (col_count(line) != num_cols)
+			return 0;
+	}
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+function parse_table(str, num_cols, lines, line, cols, i, j) {
+	split(str, lines, "\n");
+	num_cols = col_count(lines[1]);
+
+	split(lines[1], cols, "|");
+	res="<table>\n<tr>\n";
+	for (i=2; i<=num_cols+1; i++) {
+		res = res "<th>"strip(cols[i])"</th>\n";
+    }
+	res = res "</tr>\n"
+
+	for (i=3; i<=length(lines); i++) {
+		line = lines[i];
+	    split(line, cols, "|");
+	    res=res "<tr>\n";
+	    for (i=2; i<=num_cols+1; i++) {
+		    res = res "<td>"strip(cols[i])"</td>\n";
+        }
+	    res=res"</tr>\n";
+	}
+	res=res "</table>"
+	return res;
+}
+
 function parse_block(str) {
 	if (str == "")
 		return "";
 
+	if (match(str, /^[[:space:]]*\|.*/) && is_table(str)) {
+        return parse_table(str);
+	}
 	if (match(str, /^```\n.*```$/) || match(str, /^    /)) {
 		return parse_code(str);
 	}

test.sh

@@ -486,5 +486,22 @@ not metadata: 3
 <p>this: 1 is: 2 not metadata: 3</p>
 EOF
 
+check <<-"EOF"
+|foo|bar|
+|---|---|
+|1  |2  |
+---
+<table>
+<tr>
+<th>foo</th>
+<th>bar</th>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>1</td>
+<td>2</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+EOF
+
 echo 
 echo "All tests passed"