Re: How to format CLI tabular data?

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On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 15:59 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I write many CLI scripts in PHP to clean up DB records, etc via crontab
> scripts. Often though, I implement command line switches to 'debug' or see
> various data as a precaution before actually purging.
> 
> Perl has some neat tools built in to format tabular data:
> http://www.usenix.org/publications/perl/perl08.html
> 
> Does PHP have any tools like this? I'd prefer not to pull in some PEAR
> package or other bloat, but I'll take what I can get if it actually works
> well. I was hoping there are some tips/tricks to show simple tabular data:
> 
> i.e.:
> 
> # foo.php --showgroups
> 
> ==================================
>               Groups
> ==================================
> Name:     Expires:     Date:
> --------  ------------ -----------
> groupA        3 hours   2007-10-08
> groupBeta    10 hours   2007-11-10
> groupC        1 week    2007-12-31
> 
> 
> notice basic things like alignment, 
> length of data (as in 'tabs' won't work), etc.

Looks like something you could whip up in half an hour.

Cheers,
Rob.
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