Bezoar 26 March 2008 I wanted to reformat a text table to reduce the width of each column and NOT truncate the contents. I turned to tcllib's matrix and report packages to accomplish this as I mistakenly thought that the report package would word wrap automatically. This unfortunately is not the case. However by using textutils you can preprocess the cell data and get the result you want this example script does that.
package require struct::matrix
package require report
package require textutil
set mytable(0,0) "Elements"
set mytable(0,1) "Element A"
set mytable(0,2) "Element B"
set mytable(0,3) "Element C"
set mytable(0,4) "Element D"
set mytable(1,0) "Description"
set mytable(1,1) "ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 11 12 13 141516"
set mytable(1,2) "ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 11 12 13 141516"
set mytable(1,3) "ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 11 12 13 141516"
set mytable(1,4) "ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 11 12 13 141516"
proc getReport { name columns style args } {
::report::defstyle simpletable {} {
data set [split "[string repeat "| " [columns]]|"]
top set [split "[string repeat "+ - " [columns]]+"]
bottom set [top get]
top enable
bottom enable
}
set r [ report::report $name $columns style simpletable ]
return $r
}
proc setReportColumnSizes { name columnlist dataArray } {
upvar $dataArray a
r sizes $columnlist
for { set i 0 } { $i < [llength $columnlist] } { incr i } {
foreach index [ array names a $i,* ] {
set a($index) [ textutil::adjust $a($index) -length [lindex $columnlist $i ] -justify left -strictlength true ]
}
}
}
set columns 2
set rows [ expr [ llength [ array names mytable ] ] / $columns ]
set r [ getReport r $columns simpletable ]
set sizelist { 15 25 }
setReportColumnSizes r $sizelist mytable
set m [ struct::matrix m ]
m add columns $columns
m add rows $rows
m link tablex
set tabledatalist ""
array set tablex [array get mytable]
puts "[r printmatrix m ]"Results in :
+---------------+-------------------------+ |Elements |Description | |Element A |ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST | | |UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 | | |11 12 13 141516 | |Element B |ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST | | |UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 | | |11 12 13 141516 | |Element C |ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST | | |UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 | | |11 12 13 141516 | |Element D |ABCDEFGHIJKLMENOP QRST | | |UVW X YZ 1234 5676 9 10 | | |11 12 13 141516 | +---------------+-------------------------+
if run without textutil pre-procesing the data is truncated :
+---------------+-------------------------+ |Elements |Description | |Element A |676 9 10 11 12 13 141516| |Element B |676 9 10 11 12 13 141516| |Element C |676 9 10 11 12 13 141516| |Element D |676 9 10 11 12 13 141516| +---------------+-------------------------+
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