abehoffman / ascii-table-formatter

CS302 ASCII TABLE FORMATTER

This formatter allows you to automatically format an ASCII table for use on homeworks in CS202 so you don't have to spend a bunch of time working on the ASCII art to make your truth tables look nice.

Here is an example output table:

.----+----+-----------+-------.
| A  | B  |Description|Output |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 0  | 0  |   zebra   |  1    |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 0  | 0  |    bear   |  0    |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 0  | 1  |  unicorn  |  1    |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 0  | 1  |   llama   |  0    |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 1  | 0  |   whale   |  1    |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 1  | 0  |  ostrich  |  0    |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 1  | 1  |   dragon  |  0    |
|----+----+-----------+-------|
| 1  | 1  |   monkey  |  0    |
'----+----+-----------+-------'

Prerequesites

This requires Python 3.8 which can be downloaded here (Python 3.8.x works great)

If you don't want to download a new python, merely change line 63 in this file to not use the walrus operator :=.

Now on to the fun part, how you can use it––

Simply paste your pre-formatted table like the one seen below into the in.txt

NOTE:The table headers are required to be wrapped in []

[A] [B] [Description] [Output]
0 0 zebra 1
0 0 bear 0
0 1 unicorn 1
0 1 llama 0
1 0 whale 1
1 0 ostrich 0
1 1 dragon 0
1 1 monkey 0

Since it uses stdin and stdout from the sys library, you can set the input and output file paths. python3 table.py < in.txt > out.txt

Hopefully this saves you a bit of time.

How can I use this?

Either copy and paste the table.py file into your editor of choice or clone the repo with git. More information on how to use git can be found here.