Elbat (formerly known as Table)

This is a fork (*with renaming) of the Table package since upstream seems unmaintaned The main purpose of Elbat is to be able to calculate tabular output also when having html tags. If you don’t need this small feature, please use the official Table package.

ascii tables for cli

Installation

First, add elbat to your dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
    [{:elbat, "~> 0.0.1"}]
end

Then, update your dependencies:

$ mix deps.get

Usage

iex> IO.write Elbat.table(%{"key"=> "value"})
+-----|-------+
| key | value |
+-----|-------+

iex> IO.write Elbat.table([%{"style"=> :ascii},
                           %{"style"=> :unicode}], :unicode)
┌──────────┐
│ style    │
├──────────┤
│ :ascii   │
│ :unicode │
└──────────┘

iex> IO.write Elbat.table(%{"key"=> "multiline\nvalue"}, :unicode)
┌─────┬───────────┐
│ key ╎ multiline │
│     ╎ value     │
└─────┴───────────┘