Output of data in tables

[jayyy]

is there a simple way (using dos) to get output in tables?

like this

name birthday ...
Simon 08-04 ...
... ... ...


instead of

Print "name birthday ... "; and manually put them in tables

 

[travs69]

I think if you search through you find people doing it with printf or sprintf (I can't remember which). Or you can do it using tabs

print "Name\tBirthday\n";
print "Travis\t03/12/78\n";



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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[KevinADC]

If you have little formatting to do, just use the basic stuff, but if you have something you want to use as a template for data display/formatting look into perlform:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlform.html

The pack() function is also a good choice. Combined with functions like sprintf you can output very nicely formatted terminal data.


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[jayyy]

thank you that was where i was looking for

 

[jayyy]

now there just one thing that doesn't work

to long variables couldn't be written

eg.

i want this:
name | sentence | nr
345 |This is a lon|
|g sentence |

but i get this
name | sentence | nr
345 |This is a lon|

i have been looking for it on the internet but i don't find the solution yet (maybe because my bad english)

 

[jayyy]

nobody know how you can let it written on more lines?

 

[KevinADC]

jayyy,

post your perl code and show the input file/data

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