1Test2::Util::Table(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationTest2::Util::Table(3)
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6 Test2::Util::Table - Format a header and rows into a table
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9 This is used by some failing tests to provide diagnostics about what
10 has gone wrong. This module is able to generic format rows of data into
11 tables.
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14 use Test2::Util::Table qw/table/;
15 my @table = table(
17 max_width => 80,
18 collapse => 1, # Do not show empty columns
19 header => [ 'name', 'age', 'hair color' ],
20 rows => [
21 [ 'Fred Flinstone', 2000000, 'black' ],
22 [ 'Wilma Flinstone', 1999995, 'red' ],
23 ...,
24 ],
25 );
26 # The @table array contains each line of the table, no newlines added.
28 say $_ for @table;
29 This prints a table like this:
31 +-----------------+---------+------------+
33 | name | age | hair color |
34 +-----------------+---------+------------+
35 | Fred Flinstone | 2000000 | black |
36 | Wilma Flinstone | 1999995 | red |
37 | ... | ... | ... |
38 +-----------------+---------+------------+
39
41 @rows = table(...)
42 The function returns a list of lines, lines do not have the newline
43 "\n" character appended.
44 Options:
46 header => [ ... ]
48 If you want a header specify it here. This takes an arrayref with
49 each columns heading.
50 rows => [ [...], [...], ... ]
52 This should be an arrayref containing an arrayref per row.
53 collapse => $bool
55 Use this if you want to hide empty columns, that is any column that
56 has no data in any row. Having a header for the column will not
57 effect collapse.
58 max_width => $num
60 Set the maximum width of the table, the table may not be this big,
61 but it will be no bigger. If none is specified it will attempt to
62 find the width of your terminal and use that, otherwise it falls
63 back to 80.
64 sanitize => $bool
66 This will sanitize all the data in the table such that newlines,
67 control characters, and all whitespace except for ASCII 20 ' ' are
68 replaced with escape sequences. This prevents newlines, tabs, and
69 similar whitespace from disrupting the table.
70 Note: newlines are marked as '\n', but a newline is also inserted
72 into the data so that it typically displays in a way that is useful
73 to humans.
74 Example:
76 my $field = "foo\nbar\nbaz\n";
78 print join "\n" => table(
80 sanitize => 1,
81 rows => [
82 [$field, 'col2' ],
83 ['row2 col1', 'row2 col2']
84 ]
85 );
86 Prints:
88 +-----------------+-----------+
90 | foo\n | col2 |
91 | bar\n | |
92 | baz\n | |
93 | | |
94 | row2 col1 | row2 col2 |
95 +-----------------+-----------+
96 So it marks the newlines by inserting the escape sequence, but it
98 also shows the data across as many lines as it would normally
99 display.
100 mark_tail => $bool
102 This will replace the last whitespace character of any trailing
103 whitespace with its escape sequence. This makes it easier to notice
104 trailing whitespace when comparing values.
105 my $cols = term_size()
107 Attempts to find the width in columns (characters) of the current
108 terminal. Returns 80 as a safe bet if it cannot find it another way.
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111 Some unicode characters, such as "婧" ("U+5A67") are wider than others.
112 These will render just fine if you "use utf8;" as necessary, and
113 Unicode::GCString is installed, however if the module is not installed
114 there will be anomalies in the table:
115 +-----+-----+---+
117 | a | b | c |
118 +-----+-----+---+
119 | 婧 | x | y |
120 | x | y | z |
121 | x | 婧 | z |
122 +-----+-----+---+
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125 The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at
126 https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.
127
129 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>
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132 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>
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135 Copyright 2018 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.
136 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
138 under the same terms as Perl itself.
139 See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
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