NAME

Text::Table::Tiny - makes simple tables from two-dimensional arrays, with limited templating options

VERSION

version 0.02

OPTIONS

• header_row

  true/false, designate first row in $rows as a header row and separate with a line

• separate_rows

  true/false put a separator line between rows and use a thicker line for header separator

SYNOPSIS

    use Text::Table::Tiny;
    my $rows = [
        # header row
        ['Name', 'Rank', 'Serial'],
        # rows
        ['alice', 'pvt', '123456'],
        ['bob',   'cpl', '98765321'],
        ['carol', 'brig gen', '8745'],
    ];
    # separate rows puts lines between rows, header_row says that the first row is headers
    print Text::Table::Tiny::table(rows => $rows, separate_rows => 1, header_row => 1);

  Example in the synopsis: Text::Table::Tiny::table(rows => $rows);

    +-------+----------+----------+
    | Name  | Rank     | Serial   |
    | alice | pvt      | 123456   |
    | bob   | cpl      | 98765321 |
    | carol | brig gen | 8745     |
    +-------+----------+----------+

  with header_row: Text::Table::Tiny::table(rows => $rows, header_row => 1);

    +-------+----------+----------+
    | Name  | Rank     | Serial   |
    +-------+----------+----------+
    | alice | pvt      | 123456   |
    | bob   | cpl      | 98765321 |
    | carol | brig gen | 8745     |
    +-------+----------+----------+

  with header_row and separate_rows: Text::Table::Tiny::table(rows => $rows, header_row => 1, separate_rows => 1);

    +-------+----------+----------+
    | Name  | Rank     | Serial   |
    O=======O==========O==========O
    | alice | pvt      | 123456   |
    +-------+----------+----------+
    | bob   | cpl      | 98765321 |
    +-------+----------+----------+
    | carol | brig gen | 8745     |
    +-------+----------+----------+

FORMAT VARIABLES

• $Text::Table::Tiny::COLUMN_SEPARATOR = '|';

• $Text::Table::Tiny::ROW_SEPARATOR = '-';

• $Text::Table::Tiny::CORNER_MARKER = '+';

• $Text::Table::Tiny::HEADER_ROW_SEPARATOR = '=';

• $Text::Table::Tiny::HEADER_CORNER_MARKER = 'O';

AUTHOR

Creighton Higgins <chiggins@chiggins.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Creighton Higgins.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.