[erlang-questions] Pretty print list of strings in tabular way

[Pierre Fenoll]

How about using the elixir lib you linked?
@benoitc has a rebar3 provider that can compile elixir libs for you.

On Mon 23 Oct 2017 at 11:09, Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@REDACTED>
wrote:

> The erl_prettypr.erl module uses the prettypr.erl module to do the
> formatting, so you can look at that as an example.
>
> Generating nice-looking tables is however not something that fits well
> with how prettypr.erl works. It wants to be able to make local choices
> between vertical or horizontal alignment, and a table requires that the
> lines separating cells are aligned both horizontally and vertically across
> the whole table. Maybe it would be straightforward to add such grid
> alignment as an extra capability to prettypr.erl though. Otherwise, you
> could use it to format individual pieces of text to fit into the cells of
> the table once you have chosen the cell sizes.
>
>         /Richard
>
> 2017-10-23 10:42 GMT+02:00 Frank Muller <frank.muller.erl@REDACTED>:
>
>> What I would like to achieve is something similar to Scribe but in pure
>> Erlang:
>>
>> https://github.com/codedge-llc/scribe
>>
>> /Frank
>>
>>
>> erlang/19.1/lib/syntax_tools-2.1/src/prettypr.erl
>>>
>>> http://erlang.org/doc/man/prettypr.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> Where did you find a module called prettyptr? Searching for it I found
>>>> nothing.
>>>> I have used the module erl_prettypr for code, but I do not think that
>>>> is what you want.
>>>> Would you mind explaining slightly more about what you are trying to
>>>> achieve?
>>>>
>>>> bengt
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Frank Muller <
>>>> frank.muller.erl@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any library which helps pretty print list of “list of
>>>>> strings” into a nice table?
>>>>>
>>>>> I’ve found this module prettyptr shipped with the VM. But I couldn’t
>>>>> find any example on how to use it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea is very welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> /Frank
>>>>>
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