From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: text_io and grid printing
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 21:57:04 +0300
Date: 2018-05-17T21:57:04+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fm61k1FpurjU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pdkbfi$uih$2@dont-email.me>
On 18-05-17 19:43 , Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 05/17/2018 04:51 PM, Mehdi Saada wrote:
>> I wanted to use set_col and set_line to print things as in a grid, (to
>> print a matrix) but it seems I was wrong ?
>> Set_Col (1); Put ("1"); Set_Col (2); Put ("2"); Set_Col (3); Put ("3");
>> Gives "123"
>> but Set_Col (2); Put ("2"); Set_Col (1); Put ("1"); Set_Col (3); Put
>> ("3");
>> gives
>> 2
>> 1 3
>
> It's probably best to forget that Text_IO has those operations.
I find Set_Col convenient for simple tabular output, even if it has to
be used in increasing column order. But very weak compared to eg. HTML
tables, of course. I don't remember ever using Set_Line.
HTML output is a good compromise, IMO. I often use the XML EZ_Out
package from www.mckae.com. But it, too, requires the program to
generate table cells in left-to-right, top-down order.
--
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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2018-05-17 14:51 text_io and grid printing Mehdi Saada
2018-05-17 15:01 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-17 15:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-05-17 15:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-05-17 16:14 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-17 16:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-05-17 17:24 ` Mehdi Saada
2018-05-17 18:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-05-17 16:43 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-17 18:57 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
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