Columns

A text manipulation library for displaying separate text in columns

Example

use columns::Columns;

println!(
    "{}",
    Columns::from(vec![
        vec!["line1", "line2", "line3"],
        vec!["should", "be", "displayed", "side by side"],
    ])
    .base_tabsize_in(0) // Sets the tabsize to be based in the first one. This is to prevent unnecessary spacing
);

Result:

line1   should
line2   be
line3   displayed
        side by side

TODO list

• Post on crates.io
• Customizable separators

lib.rs:

A text manipulation library for displaying separate text in columns.

Quick Start

The quickest way to get column-separated text is to use the From implementation for Columns.

use columns::Columns;

let column_text = Columns::from(
   vec![
       vec!["text", "should", "be"],
       vec!["in", "different", "columns"],
       vec!["even", "in", "more", "than", "two"]
   ]
);

println!("{}", column_text);

If you're using &format!s, you may want to use make_columns method from columns::Columns.