Re: How to format CLI tabular data?

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. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................