def parse
      @table = []
      rows = @doc.split(/\r?\n/)
      rows.each do |row|
        row_array = row.split("|")
        row_array.each(&:strip!)
        @table.push(row_array)
      end
      @table.delete_at(1) if @header # strip header separator
      @table
    end
def parse
      @table = []
      rows = @doc.split(/\r?\n/)
      rows.each do |row|
        row_array = row.split("|")
        row_array.each(&:strip!)
        @table.push(row_array)
      end
      @table.delete_at(1) if @header # strip header separator
      @table
    end
taken from: https://github.com/benbalter/markdown-table-formatter
 converts the markdown string into an array of arrays