newbie question on output formatting/"pretty" print

[martin]

Hi, I am trying to print to a file 3 columns of information, the first
row is the label field,
consisting of 3 strings, 9, 4, and 9 characters wide. The first column
is strings, the second and third are integrs, of 1 up to 14 digits
wide.

aaaaaaaaa bbbb ccccccccc
--------------- ------- ---------------
xxxxxxxx 1 43432
xxxxxxxx 3213213 435435435
so on

I tried with printf %s and %d (- and + options also) but since the
width of second and third columns varies widely, the result is not
appealing and it needs a lot of trial and error to get something
half-decent looking. And also there seems to be no center
justificiation option with
printf.

I am wondering is there a way to get a decent print display without
too much trial and error. and juggling of fields nad printf options.
Thanks. Martin

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Hi, I am trying to print to a file 3 columns of information, the first
row is the label field,

Have you tried:

http://search.cpan.org/~anno/Text-Table-1.107/lib/Text/Table.pm

Sinan

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[Ian Wilson]

Hi, I am trying to print to a file 3 columns of information, the first
row is the label field,
consisting of 3 strings, 9, 4, and 9 characters wide. The first column
is strings, the second and third are integrs, of 1 up to 14 digits
wide.

aaaaaaaaa bbbb ccccccccc
--------------- ------- ---------------
xxxxxxxx 1 43432
xxxxxxxx 3213213 435435435
so on

I tried with printf %s and %d (- and + options also) but since the
width of second and third columns varies widely, the result is not
appealing and it needs a lot of trial and error to get something
half-decent looking. And also there seems to be no center
justificiation option with
printf.

I am wondering is there a way to get a decent print display without
too much trial and error. and juggling of fields nad printf options.

I still have a soft spot for Perl's "write" function, which handles
centering and column-wrap nicely.
(see `perldoc perlform`)