From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-03T06:49:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Back on the List - Two questions

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@gmail.com> wrote:
> content.each do |i|
>   i.each{|j| printf "%30s ", j}
>   puts
> end

If you combine this with a function that first figures out an
appropriate column width based on the size of the strings in that
column, this simple approach would be much more lightweight than what
we do in Ruport, for sure (but not quite as full featured).

But usually, dynamically determining column width is a must-have
unless you can make a lot of assumptions about the data you're
displaying.  For example, showing telephone numbers with fixed width
hard coded columns would be fine, but email addresses, probably not so
clear cut.

-greg

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