cli-columns

Columnated lists for the CLI. Unicode and ANSI safe.

Install

$ npm install --save cli-columns

Usage

const chalk = require('chalk');
const columns = require('.');

const values = [
    'blue' + chalk.bgBlue('berry'),
    '笔菠萝' + chalk.yellow('苹果笔'),
    chalk.red('apple'), 'pomegranate',
    'durian', chalk.green('star fruit'),
    'パイナップル', 'apricot', 'banana',
    'pineapple', chalk.bgRed.yellow('orange')
];

console.log(columns(values));

API

columns(values [, options]): String

• values {Array<String>} Array of strings to display.
• options {Object}
  • character {String} (default: ' ') Padding character.
  • newline {String} (default: '\n') Newline character.
  • padding {Number} (default: 2) Space between columns.
  • sort {Boolean} (default: true) Whether to sort results.
  • width {Number} (default: process.stdout.columns) Max width of list.

Sorts and formats a list of values into columns suitable to display in a given width.

Contribute

Standards for this project, including tests, code coverage, and semantics are enforced with a build tool. Pull requests must include passing tests with 100% code coverage and no linting errors.

Test

$ npm test

© Shannon Moeller me@shannonmoeller.com (shannonmoeller.com)

Licensed under MIT