tabulator

This is grid-style tabulation for left/right/centre justification of strings and decimal point alignment.

It is available both as a Rust crate and a command line program, tabulator.

The motivation to build such a thing is Beancount Lima.

Example Output

Simple left/right and decimal point alignment

A   1.25 A99
B1 12.5    B

Using rust_decimal auto-anchor

Assets:Bank:Current    350.75 NZD Howzah!
Assets:Bank:Investment   2.25 NZD   Skint

tabulator Command Line Usage

tabulator receives table layout on standard input, as one of the supported formats:

• JSON - all tabulation features available, with flexible alignment options and nesting of cells
• PSV - pipe separated values, with leading/trailing whitespace stripped, and lines split on pipe
• PSVF - framed pipe separated values, with leading/trailing whitespace stripped, after which each line is required to begin and end with pipe, and lines split on pipe

Example

$ tabulator -f psv <<EOF
A1|B|C1
A2|C2
|C3
D|E|F
A3|17.305|D3
A4|1.5|D4
EOF

A1  B       C1
A2  C2
    C3
D   E       F
A3  17.305  D3
A4   1.5    D4

Crate Features

There are no default features.

Optional features are:

• rust_decimal - adds a dependency on that crate and From::<Decimal> for Cell
• num-bigint - adds a dependency on that crate and From::<BigInt> and From::<BigUint> for Cell
• json - adds Cell::from_json(s: &str)
• psv - adds Cell::from_psv(s: &str, ...) and Cell::from_psvf(s: &str, ...)

Note that the clap feature is not useful as a library feature, it purely supports the binary.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 LICENSE-APACHE
• MIT license LICENSE-MIT

at your option.