ConsoleTableExt

A library to print out a nicely formatted table in a console application C#

Nuget

https://www.nuget.org/packages/ConsoleTableExt/

Feature

• Support box-drawing characters
• Table alignment (left right and center)
• Column alignment (left/right/center)
• Table can have TITLE, can change text color and background color of title, support title alignment (left/right/center)
• Support power char-map, strong customization ability
• Contain some popular formas like Markdown table...
• Support text formatter (include header)
• Support many kind data type: DataTable, List...
• Support metadata row (placed at top or bottom of table)
• Column min-length
• support .NET Framework >= 3.5, .NET core
• ...

How to use:

vartableData=newList<List<object>>{newList<object>{"Sakura Yamamoto","Support Engineer","London",46},newList<object>{"Serge Baldwin","Data Coordinator","San Francisco",28,"something else"},newList<object>{"Shad Decker","Regional Director","Edinburgh"},};

Simple example with default format:

ConsoleTableBuilder.From(tableData).ExportAndWriteLine();

More example with existing format Alternative:

ConsoleTableBuilder.From(tableData).WithFormat(ConsoleTableBuilderFormat.Alternative).ExportAndWriteLine(TableAligntment.Center);

Advance example with custom format using CharMap:

ConsoleTableBuilder.From(tableData).WithTitle("CONTACTS ",ConsoleColor.Yellow,ConsoleColor.DarkGray).WithColumn("Id","First Name","Sur Name").WithMinLength(newDictionary<int,int>{{1,25},{2,25}}).WithTextAlignment(newDictionary<int,TextAligntment>{{2,TextAligntment.Right}}).WithCharMapDefinition(newDictionary<CharMapPositions,char>{{CharMapPositions.BottomLeft,'='},{CharMapPositions.BottomCenter,'='},{CharMapPositions.BottomRight,'='},{CharMapPositions.BorderTop,'='},{CharMapPositions.BorderBottom,'='},{CharMapPositions.BorderLeft,'|'},{CharMapPositions.BorderRight,'|'},{CharMapPositions.DividerY,'|'},}).WithHeaderCharMapDefinition(newDictionary<HeaderCharMapPositions,char>{{HeaderCharMapPositions.TopLeft,'='},{HeaderCharMapPositions.TopCenter,'='},{HeaderCharMapPositions.TopRight,'='},{HeaderCharMapPositions.BottomLeft,'|'},{HeaderCharMapPositions.BottomCenter,'-'},{HeaderCharMapPositions.BottomRight,'|'},{HeaderCharMapPositions.Divider,'|'},{HeaderCharMapPositions.BorderTop,'='},{HeaderCharMapPositions.BorderBottom,'-'},{HeaderCharMapPositions.BorderLeft,'|'},{HeaderCharMapPositions.BorderRight,'|'},}).ExportAndWriteLine(TableAligntment.Right);



Check more demo here https://github.com/minhhungit/ConsoleTableExt/blob/master/Src/ConsoleTableApp/Program.cs



Char Map Definition



Header Char Map



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Inspired by

• khalidabuhakmeh/ConsoleTables