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NAME

Text::Column::Util - Utilities for displaying text in multiple columns

VERSION

This document describes version 0.005 of Text::Column::Util (from Perl distribution Text-Column-Util), released on 2021-03-02.

DESCRIPTION

This module is written mainly to provide the functionality for column-run, a CLI script to run several commands in sequence and display their results side by side. It can handle ANSI color codes and wide Unicode characters.

As alternatives to this module, you can also use modules that generate text table, like Text::Table::More. This module provides some conveniences like:

  • finding out terminal width and setting column widths equally per each command;

  • option to clip long output;

  • option to specify text as coderef;

  • option to display line number.

FUNCTIONS

show_texts_in_columns

Usage:

show_texts_in_columns(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Show texts in columns.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • gen_texts => code

  • linum_width => posint

    Line number width.

  • num_columns => posint

    Required if you use _gen_texts instead of texts.

  • on_long_line => str (default: "clip")

    What to do to long lines.

  • separator => str (default: "|")

    Separator character between columns.

  • show_linum => bool

    Show line number.

  • texts => array[str]

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Column-Util.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Text-Column-Util.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Text-Column-Util/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Text::Table::More

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.