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 Project Readme

tabularize

Formatting tabular data with paddings. tabularize correctly handles CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) wide characters and ANSI codes.

Inspired by tabular.vim (https://github.com/godlygeek/tabular)

Installation

gem install tabularize

Table generator

require 'tabularize'

table = Tabularize.new
table << %w[Name Dept Location Phone]
table.separator!
table << ['John Doe', 'Finance', 'Los Angeles CA 90089', '555-1555']
table << ['Average Joe', 'Engineering', 'Somewhere over the rainbow', 'N/A']
table << ['홍길동', '탁상 3부', '서울역 3번 출구 김씨 옆자리', 'N/A']
puts table
+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------+----------+
| Name        | Dept        | Location                    | Phone    |
+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------+----------+
| John Doe    | Finance     | Los Angeles CA 90089        | 555-1555 |
| Average Joe | Engineering | Somewhere over the rainbow  | N/A      |
| 홍길동      | 탁상 3부    | 서울역 3번 출구 김씨 옆자리 | N/A      |
+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------+----------+

With options: Padding, border and alignment

  • Padding
  • :pad Padding character
  • :pad_left Size of left padding
  • :pad_right Size of right padding
  • Border
  • :border_style Predefined border styles. :ascii (default) and :unicode
  • :border_color ANSI color code for borders
  • :hborder Character for horizontal border
  • :vborder Character for vertical border
  • :iborder Array of 9 characters for intersection points. e.g. %w[┌ ┬ ┐ ├ ┼ ┤ └ ┴ ┘]
  • Alignment
  • :align Horizontal alignment. :left, :center, :right, or Array of the three options
  • :valign Vertical alignment. :top, :middle, :bottom, or Array of the three options
  • Ellipsis: Cut off trailing cells if the total width exceeds the specified screen width
  • :screen_width The number of columns for the current terminal. Default: unlimited.
  • :ellipsis Ellipsis string when cells are cut off. Default: > 
require 'ansi'

table = Tabularize.new :pad     => '.', :pad_left => 2,  :pad_right => 0,
                       :border_style => :unicode,
                       :border_color => ANSI::Code.red,
                       :align   => [:left, :center, :right],
                       :valign  => [:top, :bottom, :middle, :middle],
                       :screen_width => 75, :ellipsis => '~'
table << %w[Name Dept Location Phone Description]
table.separator!
table << ['John Doe', 'Finance', 'Los Angeles CA 90089', '555-1555', 'Just a guy']
table << ['Average Joe', 'Engineering', 'Somewhere over the rainbow', 'N/A', 'Unknown']
table << ['홍길동', '탁상 3부', "서울역 3번 출구 김씨 옆자리\n\n맞습니다", 'N/A', 'No description']
puts table
┌─────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬──────────~
│..Name.......│.....Dept....│.....................Location│.....Phone~
├─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────~
│..John Doe...│....Finance..│.........Los Angeles CA 90089│..555-1555~
│..Average Joe│..Engineering│...Somewhere over the rainbow│.......N/A~
│..홍길동.....│.............│..서울역 3번 출구 김씨 옆자리│..........~
│.............│.............│.............................│.......N/A~
│.............│...탁상 3부..│.....................맞습니다│..........~
└─────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────────~

Tabularize.it

Tabularize table generator is built on top of low-level Tabularize.it class method. (actually it was the only method provided in the earlier versions prior to 0.2.0)

It simply returns two-dimensional array of padded and aligned Strings, so the rest of the formatting is pretty much up to you.

Example: formatting CSV data

Sample data in CSV

Name|Dept|Location|Phone
John Doe|Finance|Los Angeles, CA 90089|555-1555
Average Joe|Engineering|Somewhere over the rainbow|N/A
Hong Gildong|HR|Nowhere|555-5555
홍길동|탁상 3부|서울역 3번 출구 김씨 옆자리|N/A

Tabularize.it

require 'csv'
require 'awesome_print'
require 'tabularize'

data = CSV.read 'test.csv', :col_sep => '|'
ap data
ap Tabularize.it(data).map { |row| row.join ' | ' }

Output

[
    [0] [
        [0] "Name",
        [1] "Dept",
        [2] "Location",
        [3] "Phone"
    ],
    [1] [
        [0] "John Doe",
        [1] "Finance",
        [2] "Los Angeles, CA 90089",
        [3] "555-1555"
    ],
    [2] [
        [0] "Average Joe",
        [1] "Engineering",
        [2] "Somewhere over the rainbow",
        [3] "N/A"
    ],
    [3] [
        [0] "Hong Gildong",
        [1] "HR",
        [2] "Nowhere",
        [3] "555-5555"
    ]
]
[
    [0] "Name         | Dept        | Location                   | Phone   ",
    [1] "John Doe     | Finance     | Los Angeles, CA 90089      | 555-1555",
    [2] "Average Joe  | Engineering | Somewhere over the rainbow | N/A     ",
    [3] "Hong Gildong | HR          | Nowhere                    | 555-5555"
]

Alignments

puts Tabularize.it(data, :align => :right).map { |row| row.join ' | ' }
puts
puts Tabularize.it(data, :align => [:left, :center]).map { |row| row.join ' | ' }
        Name |        Dept |                   Location |    Phone
    John Doe |     Finance |      Los Angeles, CA 90089 | 555-1555
 Average Joe | Engineering | Somewhere over the rainbow |      N/A
Hong Gildong |          HR |                    Nowhere | 555-5555

Name         |    Dept     |          Location          |  Phone  
John Doe     |   Finance   |   Los Angeles, CA 90089    | 555-1555
Average Joe  | Engineering | Somewhere over the rainbow |   N/A   
Hong Gildong |     HR      |          Nowhere           | 555-5555

Padding with characters other than space

puts Tabularize.it(data, :pad => '_').map { |row| row.join ' | ' }
Name________ | Dept_______ | Location__________________ | Phone___
John Doe____ | Finance____ | Los Angeles, CA 90089_____ | 555-1555
Average Joe_ | Engineering | Somewhere over the rainbow | N/A_____
Hong Gildong | HR_________ | Nowhere___________________ | 555-5555
홍길동______ | 탁상 3부___ | 서울역 3번 출구 김씨 옆자리 | N/A_____

ANSI codes and CJK wide characters

tabularize correctly calculates each cell width even in the presence of ANSI codes and CJK wide characters. However, if your data doesn't have any of them, unset :unicode and :ansi in options hash, so that tabularize can process data more efficiently.

table = Tabularize.new :unicode => false, :ansi => false

Related work

I wasn't aware of terminal-table when I blindly started building tabularize. It has more features and clearly is more mature than tabularize, you should definitely check it out.

There are a few things, however, tabularize does better:

  • It correctly formats cells containing CJK wide characters.
  • Vertical alignment for multi-line cells
  • Cutting off trailing cells when the width of the output string exceeds specified screen width
  • Customizable border style

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 Junegunn Choi. See LICENSE.txt for further details.