Brian Karfunkel <[email protected]>:
Do you need the {smcl} in there? Can you use string display formats instead?
di %~18s "Hello" %~10s "World" _n %~18s "Really abnormally long cell value"
Sorry to not be more constructive, but I still can't see where you're
coming from or going to.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Brian Karfunkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Anyway, thanks again for the help.
>
> -Brian
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