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# prettytable-rs
A formatted and aligned table printer library for [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org).
*Copyright © 2019 Pierre-Henri Symoneaux*
> THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
> Check LICENSE.txt file for more information.
# How to use
* [Including](#user-content-including)
* [Basic usage](#user-content-basic-usage)
* [Using macros](#user-content-using-macros)
* [Do it with style](#user-content-do-it-with-style)
* [List of style specifiers](#user-content-list-of-style-specifiers)
* [List of color specifiers](#user-content-list-of-color-specifiers)
* [Slicing](#user-content-slicing)
* [Customize look and feel of a table](#customize-look-and-feel-of-a-table)
* [CSV import/export](#user-content-csv-importexport)
* [Importing](#user-content-importing)
* [Exporting](#user-content-exporting)
* [Note on line endings](#user-content-note-on-line-endings)
## Including
Include the library as a dependency to your project by adding the following lines to your **Cargo.toml** file:
```toml
[dependencies]
prettytable-rs = "^0.8"
```
The library requires at least `rust v1.32.0`.
## Basic usage
Start using it like this:
```rust
#[macro_use] extern crate prettytable;
use prettytable::{Table, Row, Cell};
fn main() {
// Create the table
let mut table = Table::new();
// Add a row per time
table.add_row(row!["ABC", "DEFG", "HIJKLMN"]);
table.add_row(row!["foobar", "bar", "foo"]);
// A more complicated way to add a row:
table.add_row(Row::new(vec![
Cell::new("foobar2"),
Cell::new("bar2"),
Cell::new("foo2")]));
// Print the table to stdout
table.printstd();
}
```
The code above will output
```text
+---------+------+---------+
| ABC | DEFG | HIJKLMN |
+---------+------+---------+
| foobar | bar | foo |
+---------+------+---------+
| foobar2 | bar2 | foo2 |
+---------+------+---------+
```
## Using macros
For everyday usage consider `table!` macro. This code will produce the same output as above:
```rust
#[macro_use] extern crate prettytable;
fn main() {
let table = table!(["ABC", "DEFG", "HIJKLMN"],
["foobar", "bar", "foo"],
["foobar2", "bar2", "foo2"]);
table.printstd();
}
```
The `ptable!` macro combines creating and printing a table:
```rust
#[macro_use] extern crate prettytable;
fn main() {
let table = ptable!(["ABC", "DEFG", "HIJKLMN"],
["foobar", "bar", "foo"],
["foobar2", "bar2", "foo2"]);
}
```
Tables also support multiline cells content. As a result, you can print a table into another table (yo dawg ;).
For example:
```rust
let table1 = table!(["ABC", "DEFG", "HIJKLMN"],
["foobar", "bar", "foo"],
["foobar2", "bar2", "foo2"]);
let table2 = table!(["Title 1", "Title 2"],
["This is\na multiline\ncell", "foo"],
["Yo dawg ;) You can even\nprint tables\ninto tables", table1]);
table2.printstd();
```
will print
```text
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| Title 1 | Title 2 |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| This is | foo |
| a multiline | |
| cell | |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| Yo dawg ;) You can even | +---------+------+---------+ |
| print tables | | ABC | DEFG | HIJKLMN | |
| into tables | +---------+------+---------+ |
| | | foobar | bar | foo | |
| | +---------+------+---------+ |
| | | foobar2 | bar2 | foo2 | |
| | +---------+------+---------+ |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
```
Rows may have different numbers of cells. The table will automatically adapt to the largest row by printing additional empty cells in smaller rows.
## Do it with style!
Tables can have a styled output with background and foreground colors, bold and italic as configurable settings, thanks to the `term` crate. Alignment in cells can also be set (Left, Right, Center), and a cell can span accross multiple columns.
`term` style attributes are reexported
- directly:
```rust
use prettytable::{Attr, color};
/* ... */
table.add_row(Row::new(vec![
Cell::new("foobar")
.with_style(Attr::Bold)
.with_style(Attr::ForegroundColor(color::GREEN)),
Cell::new("bar")
.with_style(Attr::BackgroundColor(color::RED))
.with_style(Attr::Italic(true))
.with_hspan(2),
Cell::new("foo")
]));
```
- through style strings:
```rust
table.add_row(Row::new(vec![
Cell::new("foobar").style_spec("bFg"),
Cell::new("bar").style_spec("BriH2"),
Cell::new("foo")]));
```
- using `row!` macro:
```rust
table.add_row(row![bFg->"foobar", BriH2->"bar", "foo"]);
```
- using `table!` macro (this one creates a new table, unlike previous examples):
```rust
table!([bFg->"foobar", BriH2->"bar", "foo"]);
```
Here
- **bFg** means **bold**, **F**oreground: **g**reen,
- **BriH2** means **B**ackground: **r**ed, **i**talic, **H**orizontal span of **2**.
Another example: **FrBybc** means **F**oreground: **r**ed, **B**ackground: **y**ellow, **b**old, **c**enter.
All cases of styling cells in macros:
- With `row!`, for each cell separately:
```rust
row![FrByb->"ABC", FrByb->"DEFG", "HIJKLMN"];
```
- With `row!`, for the whole row:
```rust
row![FY => "styled", "bar", "foo"];
```
- With `table!`, for each cell separately:
```rust
table!([FrBybl->"A", FrBybc->"B", FrBybr->"C"], [123, 234, 345, 456]);
```
- With `table!`, for whole rows:
```rust
table!([Frb => "A", "B", "C"], [Frb => 1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3]);
```
- With `table!`, mixed styling:
```rust
table!([Frb => "A", "B", "C"], [Frb->1, Fgi->2, 3, 4], [1, 2, 3]);
```
### List of style specifiers:
* **F** : **F**oreground (must be followed by a color specifier)
* **B** : **B**ackground (must be followed by a color specifier)
* **H** : **H**orizontal span (must be followed by a number)
* **b** : **b**old
* **i** : **i**talic
* **u** : **u**nderline
* **c** : Align **c**enter
* **l** : Align **l**eft
* **r** : Align **r**ight
* **d** : **d**efault style
### List of color specifiers:
Lowercase letters stand for **usual** colors:
* **r** : Red
* **b** : Blue
* **g** : Green
* **y** : Yellow
* **c** : Cyan
* **m** : Magenta
* **w** : White
* **d** : Black
Uppercase letters stand for **bright** counterparts of the above colors:
* **R** : Bright Red
* **B** : Bright Blue
* ... and so on ...
## Slicing
Tables can be sliced into immutable borrowed subtables.
Slices are of type `prettytable::TableSlice<'a>`.
For example,
```rust
use prettytable::Slice;
/* ... */
let slice = table.slice(2..5);
table.printstd();
```
will print a table with only lines 2, 3 and 4 from `table`.
Other `Range` syntaxes are supported. For example:
```rust
table.slice(..); // Returns a borrowed immutable table with all rows
table.slice(2..); // Returns a table with rows starting at index 2
table.slice(..3); // Returns a table with rows until the one at index 3
```
## Customize look and feel of a table
The look and feel of a table can be customized with `prettytable::format::TableFormat`.
Configurable settings include:
- Borders (left and right)
- Junctions
- Column separators
- Line separators
- Titles (using `table.set_titles()`)
To do this, either:
- create a new `TableFormat` object, then call setters until you get the desired configuration;
- or use the convenient `FormatBuilder` and Builder pattern, shown below
```rust
let mut table = Table::new();
let format = format::FormatBuilder::new()
.column_separator('|')
.borders('|')
.separators(&[format::LinePosition::Top,
format::LinePosition::Bottom],
format::LineSeparator::new('-', '+', '+', '+'))
.padding(1, 1)
.build();
table.set_format(format);
table.set_titles(row!["Title 1", "Title 2"]);
table.add_row(row!["Value 1", "Value 2"]);
table.add_row(row!["Value three", "Value four"]);
```
The code above will make the table look like
```
+-------------+------------+
| Title 1 | Title 2 |
| Value 1 | Value 2 |
| Value three | Value four |
+-------------+------------+
```
For convenience, several formats are predefined in `prettytable::format::consts` module.
Some formats and their respective outputs:
- ```rust
use prettytable::format;
table.set_format(*format::consts::FORMAT_NO_LINESEP_WITH_TITLE);
```
```
+-------------+------------+
| Title 1 | Title 2 |
+-------------+------------+
| Value 1 | Value 2 |
| Value three | Value four |
+-------------+------------+
```
- ```rust
use prettytable::format;
table.set_format(*format::consts::FORMAT_NO_BORDER_LINE_SEPARATOR);
```
```
Title 1 | Title 2
------------+------------
Value 1 | Value 2
Value three | Value four
```
Check API documentation for the full list of available predefined formats.
## CSV import/export
Tables can be imported from and exported to **CSV**. This is possible thanks to the default & optional feature `csv`.
> The `csv` feature may become deactivated by default on future major releases.
### Importing
A `Table` can be imported from a string:
```rust
let table = Table::from_csv_string("ABC,DEFG,HIJKLMN\n\
foobar,bar,foo\n\
foobar2,bar2,foo2")?;
```
or from CSV files:
```rust
let table = Table::from_csv_file("input_csv.txt")?;
```
> Those 2 ways of importing CSV assumes a CSV format with `no headers`, and delimited with `commas`
Import can also be done from a CSV reader which allows more customization around the CSV format:
```rust
let reader = /* create a reader */;
/* do something with the reader */
let table = Table::from_csv(reader);
```
### Exporting
Export to a generic `Write`:
```rust
let out = File::create("output_csv.txt")?;
table.to_csv(out)?;
```
or to a `csv::Writer`:
```rust
let writer = /* create a writer */;
/* do something with the writer */
table.to_csv_writer(writer)?;
```
## Note on line endings
By default, the library prints tables with platform specific line ending. This means on Windows,
newlines will be rendered with `\r\n` while on other platforms they will be rendered with `\n`.
Since `v0.6.3`, platform specific line endings are activated though the default feature `win_crlf`, which can be deactivated.
When this feature is deactivated (for instance with the `--no-default-features` flag in cargo), line endings will be rendered with `\n`
on any platform.
This customization capability will probably move to Formatting API in a future release.
Additional examples are provided in the documentation and in [examples](./examples/) directory.