NAME

Text::PrettyTable - Create a pretty formatted table using ASCII characters

VERSION

version 0.00

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: THIS MODULE HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED. CURRENT RELEASE IS A LAND GRAB.

This module is yet another text table formatter module, with focus on prettiness (over other things such as verbatim output of data). Planned features:

• Colors and color themes

  Will be used by default. Output will automatically degrade to black and white if terminal does not support color.

• Extended ANSI characters

  To make pretty table borders. Output will automatically degrade to ASCII characters if terminal does not support extended ANSI.

• Autowidth and content clipping

  Table width will not overlap (exceed terminal width) by default; instead table contents will be clipped. Remember, the main focus is on prettiness.

• Autoformatting of data

  Will detect column names (among other things) to find out how to best display the data. For example, columns with names like "send_date" or "ctime" and containing Unix timestamps data will be autoformatted to "Y-m-d H:M:S", or "X hours ago". So will DateTime objects. Numbers will be right-aligned, possibly with thousand-separators. Formatting will be locale-aware. And so on.

• Automatic column reordering

  By default it will try to reorder column if it makes sense, e.g. id columns first. Of course, this behavior can be turned off.

• Unicode support

  Stay pretty when table cells contain full width characters.

• Backends

  Mainly to support graceful degradation. Different backends include: ANSI, ASCII, CSV/column-delimited, HTML.

SEE ALSO

Text::Table

Text::SimpleTable

Text::ASCIITable, which I usually used.

Text::UnicodeTable::Simple

Table::Simple (uses Moose)

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Steven Haryanto.

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