String transformation sub-program suggestion

A system, comprising:

• means including an input subsystem for receiving a dataset having a plurality of input strings;
• means including the input subsystem for receiving a declarative user input that identifies a desired string transformation sub-program to be performed using the dataset as input;
• means including a logic subsystem for, in a search space having a plurality of string transformation sub-programs, reducing the search space based on (i) the declarative user input that identifies the desired string transformation sub-program and (ii) a datatype of the plurality of input strings of the dataset, to thereby form a reduced search space, the reduced search space having at least one string transformation sub-program that is configured to transform the dataset;
• and
• means including the logic subsystem for selecting, from the reduced search space, one or more suggested string transformation sub-programs configured to transform one or more of the plurality of input strings of the dataset.