go-table

A small library for formatting fluid tables for the CLI.

Usage

You start with a table.NewTable(), to define your headers:

t := table.NewTable("#", "Name", "Notes", "Status")

Then, for each thing you want to tabularize, just call t.Row(), passing it a nil first argument and the values for each column:

t.Row(nil, 1, "Foo", "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...", "GOOD")
t.Row(nil, 2, "Bar", "you can even have\nembedded newlines...", "GOOD")

Finally, to print it, call t.Output(), passing it the io.Writer you want it to print to (like os.Stdout):

t.Output(os.Stdout)

Those four lines render the following table, effortlessly:

#  Name  Notes                          Status
=  ====  =====                          ======
1  Foo   lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...  GOOD
2  Bar   you can even have              GOOD
         embedded newlines...