hi @turicas my input is this example HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<table id="results" border="0" class="regpub_dati c35">
		<tbody>
			<tr class="c28">
				<th class="c27">Beneficiario</th>
				<th class="c27">Comune</th>
				<th class="c27">CAP</th>
				<th class="c27">Provincia </th>
				<th class="c27">Importo</th>
			</tr>
			
			<tr>
				<td class="c31">RNDFNC60E16</td>
				<td class="c31">RIPACANDIDA</td>
				<td class="c31">85020</td>
				<td class="c31">POTENZA</td>
				<td class="c34">09269</td>
			</tr>
			
			<tr>
				<td class="c31">RNDFNC60E16</td>
				<td class="c31"></td>
				<td class="c31"></td>
				<td class="c31">POTENZA</td>
				<td class="c34">05269</td>
			</tr>
		</tbody>
		</table>
		</body>
</html>

If I run rows convert input.html output.csv I have

+--------------+-------------+-------+-----------+---------+
| beneficiario | comune      | cap   | provincia | importo |
+--------------+-------------+-------+-----------+---------+
| RNDFNC60E16  | RIPACANDIDA | 85020 | POTENZA   | 9269.0  |
| RNDFNC60E16  | -           | -     | POTENZA   | 5269.0  |
+--------------+-------------+-------+-----------+---------+

The last field is a string and it becomes a float.

I'm not able to create a PR and help you. But rows is really a great tool to convert almost everything to a usable table; my suggestion, my feature request is to add to the cli, an option like -I that disable every kind of field inferencing, that force all field to be text fields. Then it will be the user, after the first import, to apply the right casting.

Thank you

Feature request: add option to disable field type inferencing #351

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