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ShowTable Perl module available

ShowTable.pm and showtable are a Perl module and program, respectively, which enable "pretty" rendition of ASCII data into columns, with alignment and wrapping.

This is an old module, developed back in 1997, but still in use today as it helps address the common issue of how to make data more presentable.

For example, there is a shell script included, called "cvsstatus" which makes the output of "cvs status" much more comprehensible.... read more

Posted by Alan K. Stebbens 2006-11-08