use Perl

• As seen in Catalyst (Score:1)

  by jplindstrom (594)

  Text::SimpleTable [cpan.org]?
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    Never saw that module before. I don't understand why it requires that I pass in the width when the calculation is trivial. Sometimes module interfaces mystify me.
• Also nice... (Score:1)

  by kixx (5946)

  Text::ASCIITable [cpan.org] ?
• Text::TabularDisplay (Score:1)

  by dlc (50)

  I wrote Text::TabularDisplay [cpan.org] to do exactly that.

  --
  (darren)
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jplindstrom (594)

    Well, Text::SimpleTable is clearly more Table 2.0, what with the rounded corners and everything.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by dlc (50)

      Well, Text::SimpleTable is clearly more Table 2.0, what with the rounded corners and everything.

      And it's from 2005, too -- well ahead of its time. It looks pretty similar to Text::TabularDisplay, otherwise. I was specifically going for the mysql client look, as part of a similar command line client for $WORK, when I wrote it, so I don't think the rounded corners occurred to me at the time.

      --
      (darren)
• cryptic? (Score:1)

  by hdp (1658)

  Have fun reading the docs to figure that out :)

  I'm skeptical. I admit to having ever used Text::Table before, but not much, and it didn't take more than a glance at the docs to figure out how to do what you want:

  my $t = Text::Table->new(\'| ', 'Time', \' | ', 'Text', \' |');
$t->load(... some data ...);
my $rule = $t->rule(qw(- +));
print $rule, $t->head, $rule, $t->body, $rule;

  I'm not claiming to be overly fond of the interface -- any time I have to do \'foo' it trips my fingers up -- but I've read documentation that's far worse
• Wow! (Score:1)

  by mr_bean (3802)

  All these table formatters. I never knew. I just use the 'format' built-in.

  man perlform

  Perhaps I should investigate them, because I don't know how to write argument lines to 'format' that match the number of values in an array. The number of values is variable. The argument lines are fixed.

  Perhaps I should declare different formats for each of the possible number of values, because I have only a small number of different possible numbers of values.
• Text::FormatTable (Score:1)

  by dschwei (2786)

  My module Text::FormatTable (rather old and not really actively developed) can do word-wrapping and outputs tables like this:
  
       a| b     c
  =================
  this a| oh,   yep
  test,| cool,
  a nice| a
    test| test!
  ------+----------
     you| yes,  z
    mean| it
    it's| is.
  really|
       a|
  test?|
  =================