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Text-Table (1.107)

This sure is a great module. It saves a lot of time and the resulting tables are very pretty. You have to read the POD twice to understand how to use the column and row separators, though. Other than the commenter below I noticed minor problems with special characters (e.g. german umlauts) but that could also be the result of a bug in Text::Aligner or wrong locale settings in my shell. However, great work!

Jonas Kramer - 2008-05-06 15:58:46
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Text-Table (1.107)

This is a very useful module. In terms of the interface, it's by far my favorite of the various text table modules on CPAN. The only problem is that it's a little on the slow side. A dozen columns and a couple hundred rows might take over a minute to render. I'd love to see an XS version of this module to speed things up.

Edward J. Sabol - 2007-11-07 09:45:06
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Text-Table (1.107)

This module comes in extremely handy if you need to present data in tabular form. This doesn't happen all the time but when it does you're really lucky to have Text::Table around becausing laying out tables properly with correct alignment and padding isn't as easy as it seems.

On the function front, this module is flawless. I haven't yet encountered any bad layout artefacts caused by pathological input data. It's also fairly easy and convenient to use when you are willing to accept the default layout.

It's a bit more difficult to use when you want to customize your tables. This is not so much due to its interface but rather because the documentation is organized in a way that will make more than one skim through it necessary. The docs do try to be thorough and don't skimp on explaining things, though.

If it weren't for its documentation, this module should get five stars. A valuable addition to the CPAN.

Tassilo v. Parseval - 2004-12-13 00:08:08
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Text-Table (1.102)

This is another one of those modules that does one of those awful, stupid tasks that every programmer hates doing. It prints a nice text table, perfect for creating simple report output. There are piles of bells and whistles for customizing the display, but I rarely go much past the options in the synopsis. It's definitely saved me from spending hours writing awful display code (or shipping really ugly reports).

Ricardo SIGNES - 2004-09-21 15:26:47
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Text-Table (1.102)

This is a great module :) It really saves the programmer
from all of the printf formatting requirments.
The learning curve is kinda steep. The programmer
really needs to read the docs!
Overall a great module!

Ron Hill - 2003-12-08 09:44:00
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