From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T05:59:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Back on the List - Two questions

content.each do |i|
   i.each{|j| printf "%30s ", j}
   puts
end

Or is that too simplistic?

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:23 PM, list. rb <list.rb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice.. that was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:12 PM, list. rb <list.rb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's been a while but it feels good to be back.
>> >
>> > I have a quick question for the group:
>> >
>> > Given the following:
>> >
>> > content = [
>> >      ["something special a", "ok cool a", "tahsnk a"],
>> >      ["something specccccccccial a", "ok cooooool a", "tahsnk a"]
>> > ]
>> > content.each {|i|
>> >       puts i.join("\t")
>> > }
>> > #something special a     ok cool a       tahsnk a
>> > #something specccccccccial a     ok cooooool a   tahsnk a
>> >
>> > I would like to print this out as such:
>> > something special a                     ok cool a            tahsnk a
>> > something specccccccccial a     ok cooooool a   tahsnk a
>> >
>> > I remember seeing a module or example like this somewhere.. Any ideas? I
>> was
>> > thinking it was pretty print at first but after looking, I guess not?
>>
>> Well, it's a bit like killing a mosquito with a bazooka, but you could
>> use Ruport for this:
>>
>> >> require "rubygems"
>> => true
>> >> require "ruport"
>> => true
>> >> content = [
>> ?>    ["something special a", "ok coola", "tahsnk a"],
>> ?>    ["something speccccccccccccial a", "ok cooool a", "tahsnk a"]
>> >> ]
>> => [["something special a", "ok coola", "tahsnk a"], ["something
>> speccccccccccccial a", "ok cooool a", "tahsnk a"]]
>> >> puts Table(:data => content)
>> +---------------------------------------------------------+
>> | something special a            | ok coola    | tahsnk a |
>> | something speccccccccccccial a | ok cooool a | tahsnk a |
>> +---------------------------------------------------------+
>>
>> But if you don't want the decorations, you'd need to tweak things.
>> Feel free to take a look at the (not exactly pretty) source and re-use
>> whatever code you'd like:
>>
>> http://github.com/ruport/ruport/tree/master/lib/ruport/formatter/text.rb
>>
>>
>> -greg
>>
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>>
>>
>



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