I see. If there's a cleverer way, it may well involve a very different
approach, e.g. use of -_tab- (not that I've ever done that).
Nick
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Brian Karfunkel
Thanks for the help so far, it's at least nice to know I'm not
overlooking something that's easy.
I'm trying to output a series of locals in a nice tabular format, with
pipes (i.e. "|") between columns and a line of hyphens separating
rows. So, I iterate through a list of rows and columns, etc., and
ultimately have a string that contains the text for each row. For a
2X2 with Hello, World, Longval, and a blank as values that would be
something like:
local row1 "| Hello{col 10} | World{col 18} |"
local row2 "| Longval{col 10} | {col 18} |"
which outputs to:
| Hello | World |
| Longval | |
(note that in fixed-char font the column dividers line up).
The point is, the width of each column is set by the longest value in
that column. However, if, say, only one value in a column is very
long, I don't want to have that whole column be very wide, but rather
want something like this as output:
--------------------
| Test | Table |
--------------------
| tst2 | Table |
-------------------------------------------------------------
| Really abnormally long cell value | Table |
-------------------------------------------------------------
| Test | Table |
--------------------
The problem is getting the right number of hyphens to be displayed; I
want as many hyphens in the row-separators as there are characters in
the output row, which is just the length of the row as it is
displayed. I can work around it by keeping track of the length of each
component of the output row (e.g. "Test" is 4, " | " is 3, "Table" is
5, etc.), but I was hoping there was a less cumbersome way, though it
doesn't seem that there is.
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