Data::Unixish::rpad - Pad text to the right until a certain column width
version 1.40
In Perl:
use Data::Unixish::List qw(dux); my @res = dux([rpad => {width=>6}],"123", "1234"); # => ("123 ", "1234 ")
In command line:
% echo -e "123\n1234" | dux rpad -w 6 -c x --format=text-simple 123xxx 1234xx
Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Steven Haryanto.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
None are exported by default, but they are exportable.
This function can handle text containing wide characters and ANSI escape codes.
Note: to pad to a certain character length instead of column width (note that wide characters like Chinese can have width of more than 1 column in terminal), you can turn of mb option even when your text contains wide characters.
mb
Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):
ansi => bool (default: 0)
Whether to handle ANSI escape codes.
char => str (default: " ")
Character to use for padding.
Character should have column width of 1. The default is space (ASCII 32).
in => any
Input stream (e.g. array or filehandle).
mb => bool (default: 0)
Whether to handle wide characters.
out => any
Output stream (e.g. array or filehandle).
trunc => bool (default: 0)
Whether to truncate text wider than specified width.
width* => int
Return value:
Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.
To install Data::Unixish, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Data::Unixish
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Data::Unixish
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.