NAME

Test::Stream::Table - Format a header and rows into a table

EXPERIMENTAL CODE WARNING

This is an experimental release! Test-Stream, and all its components are still in an experimental phase. This dist has been released to cpan in order to allow testers and early adopters the chance to write experimental new tools with it, or to add experimental support for it into old tools.

PLEASE DO NOT COMPLETELY CONVERT OLD TOOLS YET. This experimental release is very likely to see a lot of code churn. API's may break at any time. Test-Stream should NOT be depended on by any toolchain level tools until the experimental phase is over.

DESCRIPTION

This is used by some failing tests to provide diagnostics about what has gone wrong. This module is able to generic format rows of data into tables.

SYNOPSIS

    use Test::Stream::Table qw/table/;

    my @table = table(
        max_width => 80,
        collapse => 1, # Do not show empty columns
        header => [ 'name', 'age', 'hair color' ],
        rows => [
            [ 'Fred Flinstone',  2000000, 'black' ],
            [ 'Wilma Flinstone', 1999995, 'red' ],
            ...,
        ],
    );

    # The @table array contains each line of the table, no newlines added.
    say $_ for @table;

This prints a table like this:

    +-----------------+---------+------------+
    | name            | age     | hair color |
    +-----------------+---------+------------+
    | Fred Flinstone  | 2000000 | black      |
    | Wilma Flinstone | 1999995 | red        |
    | ...             | ...     | ...        |
    +-----------------+---------+------------+

EXPORTS

@rows = table(...)

The function returns a list of lines, lines do not have the newline \n character appended.

Options:

header => [ ... ]

If you want a header specify it here. This takes an arrayref with each columns heading.

rows => [ [...], [...], ... ]

This should be an arrayref containing an arrayref per row.

collapse => $bool

Use this if you want ot hide empty columns, that is any column that has no data in any row. Having a header for the column will not effect collapse.

max_width => $num

Set the maximum width of the table, the table may not be this big, but it will be no bigger. If none is specified it will attempt to fidn the width of your terminal and use that, otherwise it falls back to 80.

sanitize => $bool

This will sanitize all the data in the table such that newlines, control characters, and all whitespace except for ASCII 20 ' ' are replaced with escape sequences. This prevents newlines, tabs, and similar whitespace from disrupting the table.

mark_tail => $bool

This will replace the last whitespace character of any trailing whitespace with its escape sequence. This makes it easier to notice trailing whitespace when comparing values.

NOTE ON UNICODE/WIDE CHARATERS

Some unicode characters, such as 婧 (U+5A67) are wider than others. These will render just fine if you use utf8; as necessary, and Unicode::GCString is installed, however if the module is not installed there will be anomolies in the table:

    +-----+-----+---+
    | a   | b   | c |
    +-----+-----+---+
    | 婧 | x   | y |
    | x   | y   | z |
    | x   | 婧 | z |
    +-----+-----+---+

SOURCE

The source code repository for Test::Stream can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test-Stream/.

MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015 Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.

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

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