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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • cryptic? (Score:1)

    by hdp (1658) on 2008.06.24 12:11 (#63592) Journal

    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.

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