man 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(2);

DESCRIPTION

Text::FormatTable renders simple tables as text. You pass to the constructor (new) a table format specification similar to LaTeX (e.g. CWr|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($format)
Create a Text::FormatTable object, the format of each column is specified as a character of the CW$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.
10R, 20r, 15L, 12l,
Number is fixed width of the column. Justified and aligned word-wrapped text (see above).
' '
A space.
|
Column separator.
head($col1, $col2, ...)
Add a header row using CW$col1, CW$col2, etc. as cell contents. Note that, at the moment, header rows are treated like normal rows.
row($col1, $col2, ...)
Add a row with CW$col1, CW$col2, etc. as cell contents.
rule([$char])
Add an horizontal rule. If CW$char is specified it will be used as character to draw the rule, otherwise '-' will be used.
render([$screen_width])
Return the rendered table formatted with CW$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 <dws@ee.ethz.ch>

Fixed column width and bottom alignment written by Veselin Slavov <vslavov@creditreform.bg>