Re: How to format CLI tabular data?
| From: | tedd | Date: | Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:15:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to format CLI tabular data? | ||
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At 3:59 PM -0700 10/8/07, 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 ==================================It's tabular -- why not use tables? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.comGroups==================================Name: Expires: Date:-------- ------------ -----------groupA 3 hours 2007-10-08 groupBeta 10 hours 2007-11-10 groupC 1 week 2007-12-31notice basic things like alignment, length of data (as in 'tabs' won't work), etc.