Text::FormatTable - Format text tables

NAME

Text::FormatTable - Format text tables

SYNOPSIS

 my $table = Text::FormatTable->new('r|l');
 $table->head('a', 'b');
 $table->rule('=');
 $table->row('c', 'd');
 print $table->render(20);

DESCRIPTION

Text::FormatTable renders simple tables as text. You pass to the constructor (new) a table format specification similar to LaTeX (e.g. r|l|5l|R|20L) and you call methods to fill the table data and insert rules. After the data is filled, you call the render method and the table gets formatted as text.

Methods:

new($format)
Create a Text::FormatTable object, the format of each column is specified as a character of the $format string. The following formats are defined:
l
Left-justified top aligned word-wrapped text.

L
Left-justified bottom aligned word-wrapped text.

r
Right-justified top aligned word-wrapped text.

R
Right-justified bottom aligned word-wrapped text.

  • R, 20r, 15L, 12l,
    • Number is fixed width of the column. Justified and aligned word-wrapped text (see above).

    ' '
    A space.

    |
    Column separator.

    head($col1, $col2, ...)
    Add a header row using $col1, $col2, etc. as cell contents. Note that, at the moment, header rows are treated like normal rows.

    row($col1, $col2, ...)
    Add a row with $col1, $col2, etc. as cell contents.

    rule([$char])
    Add an horizontal rule. If $char is specified it will be used as character to draw the rule, otherwise '-' will be used.

    render([$screen_width])
    Return the rendered table formatted with $screen_width or 79 if it is not specified.

    SEE ALSO

    Text::ASCIITable

    COPYRIGHT

    Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. All Rights Reserved.

    This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

    AUTHOR

    David Schweikert >

    Fixed column width and bottom alignment written by Veselin Slavov >

     Text::FormatTable - Format text tables