pretty-columns

• Support colors, chalk and other ansi.
• Compatible with double-byte characters, emoji emoticons.
• Best display when using monospaced fonts.
• Content can only be displayed in a single line, automatically remove "\n" or "\r" from content.
• Multi-line display may be possible. (lazy.. stretched)

Via npm

npm install pretty-columns

Via yarn

yarn add pretty-columns

Usage

Normally

var pc = require('pretty-columns');

pc(input).output();
// console.log(pc(input)) will see all structure

Output

var po = require('pretty-columns').output;

po(input);

Inject console

require('pretty-columns').injectConsole();

console.columns(input);

About Input

String

var input = "A\tB\n1\t2";

Array

var input = [['A','B'],[1,2]];

Mixed

var input = ['A,B','1,2'];

Custom configuration

property	description	default
rowSplitSymbol	Row split symbol(when string input given)	"\n" (can be regexp)
columnSplitSymbol	Column split symbol(when string input given)	"\t" (can be regexp)
align	Alignment: ['right', 'center', ...] OR 'rc...'	Filling "left" when insufficient. Ignored when redundant.
rowSeparation	Rows connector	"\n"
columnSeparation	Columns connector	" "
prefix	Prefix at output	""
suffix	Suffix at output	""
placeholder	Fill white space	" "

Example

var output = require('../index').output;
var colors = require('colors');
var chalk = require('chalk');

var INPUT = [
    [
        chalk.bold.blue("key"),
        colors.bold.red("value")
    ],
    [
        "domain",
        "www.google.com"
    ],
    [
        chalk.yellow("path"),
        "😘search🐰"
    ],
    [
        "query",
        colors.cyan("q=") + "npm 中\n文呢？"
    ],
    [
        "scheme",
        "https"
    ]
];

output(INPUT, {
    align: 'cr',
    columnSeparation: ' | ',
    rowSeparation: " |\n| ",
    prefix: '| ',
    suffix: ' |',
    placeholder: '*'
});

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