ASCII Table Writer

Generate ASCII table on the fly ... Installation is simple as

go get  github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter

Features

• Automatic Padding
• Support Multiple Lines
• Supports Alignment
• Support Custom Separators
• Automatic Alignment of numbers & percentage
• Write Directly to http , file etc via io.Reader

TODO

• Import Directly from CSV
• Support custom alignment
• Support table with uneven elements
• Support pyramid structure
• General Improvement & Optimisation
• NewFromHTML Parse table from HTML

Example

data := [][]string{
    []string{"A", "The Good", "500"},
    []string{"B", "The Very very Bad Man", "288"},
    []string{"C", "The Ugly", "120"},
    []string{"D", "The Gopher", "800"},
}

table := tablewriter.NewWriter(os.Stdout)
table.SetHeader([]string{"Name", "Sign", "Rating"})
for _, v := range data {
    table.Append(v)
}
table.Render() // Send output

Output

+------+-----------------------+--------+
| NAME |         SIGN          | RATING |
+------+-----------------------+--------+
|  A   |       The Good        |    500 |
|  B   | The Very very Bad Man |    288 |
|  C   |       The Ugly        |    120 |
|  D   |      The Gopher       |    800 |
+------+-----------------------+--------+

Example 2

table, _ := tablewriter.NewCSV(os.Stdout, "test.csv")
table.SetCenterSeparator("*")
table.SetRowSeparator("=")
table.SetAlignment(table.ALIGN_LEFT)
table.Render()

Output 2

*============*===========*=========*
| FIRST_NAME | LAST_NAME |   SSN   |
*============*===========*=========*
| John       | Barry     | 123456  |
| Kathy      | Smith     | 687987  |
| Bob        | McCornick | 3979870 |
*============*===========*=========*