Hi,
Does anyone know of a quick way to nicely format data into columns?
Say I have tabbed data like the following:
Fruit Colour Amount
Apple Green 2
Apple Red 31
Grapefruit Pink 1
There are two tabs between each bit of data, but in order to line the data
up visually, the first three rows need
Melissa,
You do not tell us what the end use will be.
If you want them in columns then get rid of all extra tabs so that there is a
single one between the text.
Now copy/paste into a word processor that has tab stops or into a spreadsheet
and print without the grid lines.
Thanks,
Ted
Good morning,
On 30/12/13 at 5:51 AM -0800, Melissa dest...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know of a quick way to nicely format data into columns?
I don't believe there is a native method any longer (used to a
be a plugin for it ages ago). But `column` command could be used
in a filter.
On Monday, December 30, 2013 2:01:10 PM UTC, T Burger wrote:
You do not tell us what the end use will be.
If you want them in columns then get rid of all extra tabs so that there
is a single one between the text.
Now copy/paste into a word processor that has tab stops or into a
spreadsheet
On Monday, December 30, 2013 2:14:49 PM UTC, Charlie Garrison wrote:
On 30/12/13 at 5:51 AM -0800, Melissa des...@gmail.com javascript:
wrote:
Does anyone know of a quick way to nicely format data into columns?
I don't believe there is a native method any longer (used to a
be a plugin
Melissa: thanks for writing this question, because in doing so, you have turned
me on to the entable script, which is really cool. Years ago, I had written a
fairly simple C program to align columns, and I'll probably still use it, but
entable is much more flexible. It can be used either on the
At 01:14 +1100 on 12/31/2013, Charlie Garrison wrote about Re:
Formatting text into columns:
Eg. using your sample data, it outputs:
Fruit Colour Amount
Apple Green 2
Apple Red 31
Grapefruit Pink1
Also put a space after the tab before the 2 and the 1 so
Many thanks for the entable link. Very nice!
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