Formatting plain text file

Hey all,

Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in
tables for HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a
plain text file.

I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses
type stuff... sprintf?
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Re: Formatting plain text file

Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for
> HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file.
>
> I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type
> stuff... sprintf?

or a little str_pad on each variable...



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Re: Formatting plain text file

Jim Lucas wrote:
> Skip Evans wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for
>> HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file.
>>
>> I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type
>> stuff... sprintf?
>
> or a little str_pad on each variable...
>

Sure, that will do it. But isn't there some way to construct
formatted tables similar to HTML?


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Re: Formatting plain text file

Skip Evans wrote:
> Jim Lucas wrote:
>> Skip Evans wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for
>>> HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file.
>>>
>>> I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type
>>> stuff... sprintf?
>> or a little str_pad on each variable...
>>
>
> Sure, that will do it. But isn't there some way to construct
> formatted tables similar to HTML?

You can use a combination of wordwrap(), str_pad(), and swathe of
judicious (but simplistic) math :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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Re: Formatting plain text file

On 07/30/2009 06:29 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Jim Lucas wrote:
>> Skip Evans wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Am I brain fading or what? I'm so used to formatting text in tables for
>>> HTML display I can't think of how to do it for a plain text file.
>>>
>>> I just need to create a columned table of names and addresses type
>>> stuff... sprintf?
>>
>> or a little str_pad on each variable...
>>
>
> Sure, that will do it. But isn't there some way to construct formatted
> tables similar to HTML?
>
>

Are you thinking of a CSV file that you can open in a spreadsheet prog?
Or, do you literally mean a plaintext file with columns? For the latter,
you'd need to measure the max char length of each "column" for every
line in the file, then go back and print each line using str_pad().


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Re: Formatting plain text file

//assuming you have a 2d matrix $table
$table = array(
array("c11", "c12", "c13"),
array("c21", "c22", "c23")
);
foreach($table as $rows) {
$row = vsprintf(str_repeat("%-10s", count($rows)), $rows);
echo "{$row}
\n";
}

wont this do ?

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