In showing a long lists, sometimes one would prefer to see the value arranged aligned in columns. Some examples include listing methods of an object, listing debugger commands, or showing a numeric array with data aligned.
$ irb
>> require 'columnize'
=> true>> a = (1..10).to_a
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>> a.columnize
=> "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"
>> puts a.columnize :arrange_array => true, :displaywidth => 10
[ 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9,
10]
=> nil
>> puts a.columnize :arrange_array => true, :displaywidth => 20
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10]
=> nil>> g = %w(bibrons golden madascar leopard mourning suras tokay)
=> ["bibrons", "golden", "madascar", "leopard", "mourning", "suras", "tokay"]
>> puts g.columnize :displaywidth => 15
bibrons suras
golden tokay
madascar
leopard
mourning
=> nil
>> puts g.columnize :displaywidth => 19, :colsep => ' | '
bibrons | mourning
golden | suras
madascar | tokay
leopard
=> nil
>> puts g.columnize :displaywidth => 18, :colsep => ' | ', :ljust => false
bibrons | suras
golden | tokay
madascar
leopard
mourning
=> nil>> Columnize.columnize(a)
=> "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"
>> puts Columnize.columnize(a, :displaywidth => 10)
1 5 9
2 6 10
3 7
4 8
=> nil
>> Columnize.columnize(g)
=> "bibrons golden madascar leopard mourning suras tokay"
>> puts Columnize.columnize(g, :displaywidth => 19, :colsep => ' | ')
bibrons | mourning
golden | suras
madascar | tokay
leopard
=> nilThis is adapted from a method of the same name from Python's cmd module.
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