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function create_markdown_table_slice() {
  local tmp=$(mktemp)
  local LEN=""
  local STRING=""
  local label=""

  # Check if the input file exists
  if [[ ! -f "$input_file" ]]; then
    fecho "Error: Input file '$input_file' not found."
    return 1
  fi

  LEN=`longest_string_length < "$input_file"`
  STRING=`repeat_char " " "24"`

  rm -f "$tmp" >/dev/null 2>&1
  if [[ "$str" == "MAKELINKS" ]]; then
      cat "$input_file" |gawk '
                         BEGIN {
                                NOTHING=0;
                         }
                         {
                             n=split($0,A,"/");
                             nme=A[n];
                             sub(/[.]html$/, "", nme);
                             sub(/[.]pdf/,"",nme); 
                             nme=substr(nme,1,42);
                             gsub(/_/," ",nme);
                             gsub(/Programming/,"Prog",nme);
                             gsub(/Architecture/,"Arch",nme);
                             print "[" nme "](" $0 ")";
                         }' > $tmp
  else
      cat "$input_file"  > $tmp
  fi

  # Read lines from the file and create table rows
  local line_count=0
  local row=""
  local first_row=1
  echo "# $szslice"
  echo " "
  while IFS= read -r line; do
    if [[ $line_count -eq 0 ]]; then
      if [[ $first_row -eq 1 ]]; then
          # echo "| $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING |"
          # echo "|----------|----------|----------|----------|"
          # echo "| $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING |"
          # echo "|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|"
          # echo "| $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING |"
          # echo "|----------|----------|----------|----------|"
          echo "| $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING | $STRING |"
          echo "|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|"
          first_row=0
      fi
    fi

    row+="| $line "

    line_count=$((line_count + 1))

    if [[ $line_count -eq 5 ]]; then
      echo "$row|"
      row=""
      line_count=0
    fi
  done < "$tmp"

  # Handle remaining lines if the total line count is not a multiple of 5
  if [[ $line_count -gt 0 ]]; then
    for ((i = line_count; i < 5; i++)); do
        row+="|  "
    done
    echo "$row|"
  fi
}