[racket] Output Different Column Widths in a Table

Thank you. I will try this out.

Regards,


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:

> `pretty-print' is not really meant to print tables. You probably want to
> use `~a' instead, which has various arguments related to width:
>
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/strings.html?q=~a#%28def._%28%28lib._racket%2Fformat..rkt%29._~7ea%29%29
>
> For example:
> (for ([s '("auie" "bépoauie" 5 10)]
>       [w '(10 4 8 2)])
>   (display (~a s #:width w)))
>
> Laurent
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Eli Nistal <emnistal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to output a table with different column widths. That is, each
>> column in the table will have a different column width. It looks like
>> pretty printing and parameterizing column widths might do the trick but I
>> have not been able to put it together and get it to work.
>>
>> I have a function that determines the maximum string length for each
>> entry in a column, from a transposed/pivoted list of lists/matrix and
>> returns a list of those maximums for each column. Now I would like to apply
>> those widths to each column as each line is printed.
>>
>> This is for a simple text file.
>>
>> Any examples or pointers to examples or docs would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
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>


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