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Term-TablePrint-0.112
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/ Term::TablePrint

NAME

Term::TablePrint - Print a table to the terminal and browse it interactively.

VERSION

Version 0.112

SYNOPSIS

    my $table = [ [ 'id', 'name' ],
                  [    1, 'Ruth' ],
                  [    2, 'John' ],
                  [    3, 'Mark' ],
                  [    4, 'Nena' ], ];

    use Term::TablePrint qw( print_table );

    print_table( $table );

    # or OO style:

    use Term::TablePrint;

    my $pt = Term::TablePrint->new();
    $pt->print_table( $table );

DESCRIPTION

print_table shows a table and lets the user interactively browse it. It provides a cursor which highlights the row on which it is located. The user can scroll through the table with the different cursor keys - see "KEYS".

If the table has more rows than the terminal, the table is divided up on as many pages as needed automatically. If the cursor reaches the end of a page, the next page is shown automatically until the last page is reached. Also if the cursor reaches the topmost line, the previous page is shown automatically if it is not already the first one.

If the terminal is too narrow to print the table, the columns are adjusted to the available width automatically.

If the option table_expand is enabled and a row is selected with Return, each column of that row is output in its own line preceded by the column name. This might be useful if the columns were cut due to the too low terminal width.

The following modifications are made (at a copy of the original data) to the table elements before the output.

Tab characters (\t) are replaces with a space.

Vertical spaces (\v) are squashed to two spaces

Control characters, code points of the surrogate ranges and non-characters are removed.

If the option squash_spaces is enabled leading and trailing spaces are removed from the array elements and spaces are squashed to a single space.

If an element looks like a number it is left-justified, else it is right-justified.

METHODS

new

The new method returns a Term::TablePrint object. As an argument it can be passed a reference to a hash which holds the options - the available options are listed in "OPTIONS".

    my $tp = Term::TablePrint->new( [ \%options ] );

The print_table method prints the table passed with the first argument.

    $tp->print_table( $array_ref, [ \%options ] );

The first argument is a reference to an array of arrays. The first array of these arrays holds the column names. The following arrays are the table rows where the elements are the field values.

As a second and optional argument a hash reference can be passed which holds the options - the available options are listed in "OPTIONS".

SUBROUTINES

The print_table subroutine prints the table passed with the first argument.

    print_table( $array_ref, [ \%options ] );

The subroutine print_table takes the same arguments as the method "print_table".

USAGE

KEYS

Keys to move around:

  • the ArrowDown key (or the j key) to move down and the ArrowUp key (or the k key) to move up.

  • the PageUp key (or Ctrl-B) to go back one page, the PageDown key (or Ctrl-F) to go forward one page.

  • the Insert key to go back 25 pages, the Delete key to go forward 25 pages.

  • the Home key (or Ctrl-A) to jump to the first row of the table, the End key (or Ctrl-E) to jump to the last row of the table.

With keep_header disabled the Return key closes the table if the cursor is on the header row.

If keep_header is enabled and table_expand is set to 0, the Return key closes the table if the cursor is on the first row.

If keep_header and table_expand are enabled and the cursor is on the first row, pressing Return three times in succession closes the table. If table_expand is set to 1 and the cursor is auto-jumped to the first row, it is required only one Return to close the table.

If the cursor is not on the first row:

  • with the option table_expand disabled the cursor jumps to the table head if Return is pressed.

  • with the option table_expand enabled each column of the selected row is output in its own line preceded by the column name if Return is pressed. Another Return closes this output and goes back to the table output. If a row is selected twice in succession, the pointer jumps to the head of the table or to the first row if keep_header is enabled.

If the size of the window is changed, the screen is rewritten as soon as the user presses a key.

If the option choose_columns is enabled, the SpaceBar key (or the right mouse key) can be used to select columns - see option "choose_columns".

OPTIONS

Defaults may change in a future release.

prompt

String displayed above the table.

binary_filter

If binary_filter is set to 1, "BNRY" is printed instead of arbitrary binary data.

If the data matches the repexp /[\x00-\x08\x0B-\x0C\x0E-\x1F]/, it is considered arbitrary binary data.

Printing arbitrary binary data could break the output.

Default: 0

choose_columns

If choose_columns is set to 1, the user can choose which columns to print. Columns can be added (with the SpaceBar and the Return key) until the user confirms with the -ok- menu entry.

Confirming without any selected columns selects all columns.

Default: 0

decimal_separator

Set the decimal separator. Numbers with a decimal separator are formatted as number if this option is set to the right value.

Allowed values: a character with a print width of 1. If an invalid values is passed, decimal_separator falls back to the default value.

Default: . (dot)

codepage_mapping

This option has only meaning if the operating system is MSWin32.

If the OS is MSWin32, Win32::Console::ANSI is used. By default Win32::Console::ANSI converts the characters from Windows code page to DOS code page (the so-called ANSI to OEM conversion). This conversation is disabled by default in Term::Choose but one can enable it by setting this option.

Setting this option to 1 enables the codepage mapping offered by Win32::Console::ANSI.

0 - disable automatic codepage mapping

1 - keep automatic codepage mapping

Default: 0

color

Setting this option to 1 enables the support for color and text formatting escape sequences.

At the end of each row it is added automatically a reset (\e[0m) if color is enabled.

Default: 0

grid

If grid is set to 0, the table is shown with no grid.

If grid is set to 1, lines separate the columns from each other and the header from the body.

    .----------------------------.
    |col1 | col2   | col3 | col3 |
    |-----|--------|------|------|
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    |.... | ...... | .... | .... |
    '----------------------------'

grid set to 2 is like grid set to 1 plus a separator line on top of the header row.

Default: 1

keep-header

If keep-header is set to 0, the table header is shown on top of the first page.

If keep-header is set to 1, the table header is shown on top of each page.

Default: 1

squash_spaces

If squash_spaces is enabled, consecutive spaces are squashed to one space and leading and trailing spaces are removed.

Default: 0

max_rows

Set the maximum number of used table rows. The used table rows are kept in memory.

To disable the automatic limit set max_rows to 0.

If the number of table rows is equal to or higher than max_rows, the last row of the output tells that the limit has been reached.

Default: 200_000

min_col_width

The columns with a width below or equal min_col_width are only trimmed if it is still required to lower the row width despite all columns wider than min_col_width have been trimmed to min_col_width.

Default: 30

mouse

Set the mouse mode (see option mouse in "OPTIONS" in Term::Choose).

Default: 0

progress_bar

Set the progress bar threshold. If the number of fields (rows x columns) is higher than the threshold, a progress bar is shown while preparing the data for the output.

Default: 40_000

tab_width

Set the number of spaces between columns.

Default: 2

table_expand

If the option table_expand is set to 1 or 2 and Return is pressed, the selected table row is printed with each column in its own line. Exception: if table_expand is set to 1 and the cursor auto-jumped to the first row, the first row will not be expanded.

If table_expand is set to 0, the cursor jumps to the to first row (if not already there) when Return is pressed.

Default: 1

undef

Set the string that will be shown on the screen instead of an undefined field.

Default: "" (empty string)

ERROR HANDLING

print_table dies

  • if an invalid number of arguments is passed.

  • if an invalid argument is passed.

  • if an unknown option name is passed.

  • if an invalid option value is passed.

REQUIREMENTS

Perl version

Requires Perl version 5.8.3 or greater.

Decoded strings

print_table expects decoded strings.

Encoding layer for STDOUT

For a correct output it is required to set an encoding layer for STDOUT matching the terminal's character set.

Monospaced font

It is required a terminal that uses a monospaced font which supports the printed characters.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Term::TablePrint

SEE ALSO

App::DBBrowser

CREDITS

Thanks to the Perl-Community.de and the people form stackoverflow for the help.

AUTHOR

Matthäus Kiem <cuer2s@gmail.com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2013-2019 Matthäus Kiem.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For details, see the full text of the licenses in the file LICENSE.