SPUG: Pretty-Printing Nested Hashes?

[Joshua Lanza]

Have you tried to do this with formats? I think they're easier to
maintain than a bunch of printf statements. There's a how-to at
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~abatko/computers/programming/perl/howto/format/


On 9/19/05, Adam Monsen <haircut at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/05, Michael Wallendahl <mwallend at spikus.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestions on a good algorithm to
> > 'pretty-print' a nested hash in tabular form?
> [...]
>
> You could pick a max length for each column, then use substr to
> truncate anything longer than your desired max length. Other than
> that, the algorithm you've implemented looks fine. Any fancy solutions
> (like using a custom tied hash that sorts keys or keeps track of the
> longest value, or something like that) would have to do the same work
> as what you wrote, but would probably be less straightforward to
> maintain. But, of course, YMMV, TMTOWTDI, etc.
>
> HTH,
> -AMM
>
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> Adam Monsen
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