C++ Cli Table 💡

C++ "single header file" library for drawing tables in console.
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About

A C++ "single header file" library for drawing tables in the console.

Getting Started / Setup

As User

"Copy and Paste" or "Download" the table.h file, and add it to your project.

As Developer

Windows

1. Clone the repo and enter the folder
2. Run make.bat or ./make.bat

Linux & Mac

Coming Soon 😁

Usage

Include table.h in project

#include "table.h"

Instantiate a Table

clitable::Table table;

Instantiate Columns

Description of Column constructor:

Arg No.	Description
0	Name of the Column Header
1	Alignment of Column Header
2	Alignment of Column values
3	Column padding
4	Column size (amount of letter it can contain)
5	Column resizability

Alignment Parameters

1. clitable::Column::CENTER_ALIGN: For aligning value or header to the center.
2. clitable::Column::RIGHT_ALIGN: For aligning value or header to the right.
3. clitable::Column::LEFT_ALIGN: For aligning value or header to the left.

Resizability Parameters

1. clitable::Column::RESIZABLE: The 'column size'¹ will increase automatically if the values don't fit.
2. clitable::Column::NON_RESIZABLE: The 'column size'¹ will not change even if the values don't fit.

1 'Column size' means the same as mentioned in Description of Column constructor Arg No. 4

clitable::Column c[3] = {
  clitable::Column("Name", clitable::Column::CENTER_ALIGN, clitable::Column::LEFT_ALIGN, 1,7,  clitable::Column::NON_RESIZABLE),
  clitable::Column("Topic", clitable::Column::CENTER_ALIGN, clitable::Column::RIGHT_ALIGN, 1,2, clitable::Column::RESIZABLE),
  clitable::Column("Nation", clitable::Column::CENTER_ALIGN, clitable::Column::LEFT_ALIGN, 1,5, clitable::Column::NON_RESIZABLE)
};

Assigning Columns to the Table

for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
  table.addColumn(c[i]);
}

Adding Rows

std::string r[3][3] = {
  {"Samuel Miller", "Coding Memes", "Venezuela"},
  {"DevEd", "Web Development", "Germany"},
  {"Mykull", "Crack Head", "U.S.A"}
};

for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
  table.addRow(r[i]);
}

Adding Title

table.addTitle("These Are YOUTUBERS");

Printing the Table

table.draw();

Result:

         These Are YOUTUBERS
+=========+=================+=======+
|  Name   |      Topic      | Natio |
|         |                 |   n   |
+=========+=================+=======+
| Samuel  |    Coding Memes | Venez |
| Miller  |                 | uela  |
+---------+-----------------+-------+
| DevEd   | Web Development | Germa |
|         |                 | ny    |
+---------+-----------------+-------+
| Mykull  |      Crack Head | U.S.A |
+---------+-----------------+-------+

Line Breaking

For breaking line use \n character.

std::string r[3][3] = {
  {"Samuel Miller", "Coding Memes", "Venezuela"},
  {"DevEd", "Web Development", "Germany"},
  {"Mykull", "Crack\n Head", "U.S.A"}
};

Result:

         These Are YOUTUBERS
+=========+=================+=======+
|  Name   |      Topic      | Natio |
|         |                 |   n   |
+=========+=================+=======+
| Samuel  |    Coding Memes | Venez |
| Miller  |                 | uela  |
+---------+-----------------+-------+
| DevEd   | Web Development | Germa |
|         |                 | ny    |
+---------+-----------------+-------+
| Mykull  |           Crack | U.S.A |
|         |            Head |       |
+---------+-----------------+-------+

Contribution

Just send me a pull request. Mention your discord or instagram id.

(if the instructions were unclear, please let me know)

Contact

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