Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively
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browse table data interactively.
Let me say first that the best tools are not Perl-based since sadly Perl
is not a favorite choice for writing tools these days. That said, Perl
is still a great glue to help make those tools work together better for
you.
1) Visidata, <https://www.visidata.org>
This is currently my favorite. It's terminal-based, written in Python,
and has more features than any other tools currently written in Perl, by
far. vd has support for many formats, including CSV, TSV, Excel, JSON,
and SQLite. It makes it particularly easy to create summary for your
table like histogram or sum/average/max/min/etc, or add new columns, or
edit some cells. It also has visualization features like XY-plots.
It has the concept of "sheets" like sheets in a spreadsheet workbook so
anytime you filter rows/columns or create summary or do some other
derivation from your data, you create a new sheet which you can edit,
save, and destroy later as needed and go back to your original table. It
even presents settings and metadata as sheets so you can edit them as a
normal sheet.
It has plugins, and I guess it should be simple enough to create a
plugin so you can filter rows or add columns using Perl expression
support for Visidata. You can specify command-line option "--format=vd"
to browse the output of your CLI program in Visidata.
2) DataTables, <https://datatables.net>
DataTables is a JavaScript (jQuery-based) library to add controls to
your HTML table so you can filter rows incrementally, sort rows, reorder
columns, and so on. It also has plugins to do more customized stuffs. I
still prefer Visidata most of the time because I am comfortable living
in the terminal, but I particularly love the incremental searching
feature that comes built-in with DataTables.
My CLI framework Perinci::CmdLine (Perinci::CmdLine::Lite, v1.918+) also
has support for DataTables. You can specify command-line option
"--format=html+datatables" to output your CLI program's result as HTML
table (using Text::Table::HTML::DataTables) when possible and then
browse the output in browser.
3) Tickit::Widget::Table, Tickit::Widget::Table
This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Using the Tickit
library, the advantages it's supposed to have is mouse support. It's
still very basic: you either have to specify each column width manually
or the width of all columns will be the same. There's no horizontal
scrolling support or a way to see long text in a column. Not updated
since 2016.
4) Term::TablePrint, Term::TablePrint
This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Provides roughly
the same features like Tickit::Widget::Table with an extra one: you can
press Enter on a row to view it as a "card" where each column will be
displayed vertically, so you can better see a row that has many columns
or columns with long text.
There is currently no support beyond the most basic stuffs, so no column
hiding, reordering, etc.
5) less
Don't forget the good ol' Unix pager. You can render your table data as
required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2023, 2022, 2021 by perlancar
<perlancar@cpan.org>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Acme-CPANModules-Brow
singTableInteractively>
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch
to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
lib/Acme/CPANModules/BrowsingTableInteractively.pm view on Meta::CPAN
table data interactively.
Let me say first that the best tools are not Perl-based since sadly Perl is not
a favorite choice for writing tools these days. That said, Perl is still a great
glue to help make those tools work together better for you.
1) **Visidata**, <https://www.visidata.org>
This is currently my favorite. It's terminal-based, written in Python, and has
more features than any other tools currently written in Perl, by far. vd has
support for many formats, including CSV, TSV, Excel, JSON, and SQLite. It makes
it particularly easy to create summary for your table like histogram or
sum/average/max/min/etc, or add new columns, or edit some cells. It also has
visualization features like XY-plots.
It has the concept of "sheets" like sheets in a spreadsheet workbook so anytime
you filter rows/columns or create summary or do some other derivation from your
data, you create a new sheet which you can edit, save, and destroy later as
needed and go back to your original table. It even presents settings and
metadata as sheets so you can edit them as a normal sheet.
It has plugins, and I guess it should be simple enough to create a plugin so you
can filter rows or add columns using Perl expression instead of the default
Python, if needed.
lib/Acme/CPANModules/BrowsingTableInteractively.pm view on Meta::CPAN
has support for Visidata. You can specify command-line option `--format=vd` to
browse the output of your CLI program in Visidata.
2) **DataTables**, <https://datatables.net>
DataTables is a JavaScript (jQuery-based) library to add controls to your HTML
table so you can filter rows incrementally, sort rows, reorder columns, and so
on. It also has plugins to do more customized stuffs. I still prefer Visidata
most of the time because I am comfortable living in the terminal, but I
particularly love the incremental searching feature that comes built-in with
DataTables.
My CLI framework <pm:Perinci::CmdLine> (<pm:Perinci::CmdLine::Lite>, v1.918+)
also has support for DataTables. You can specify command-line option
`--format=html+datatables` to output your CLI program's result as HTML table
(using <pm:Text::Table::HTML::DataTables>) when possible and then browse the
output in browser.
3) **Tickit::Widget::Table**, <pm:Tickit::Widget::Table>
lib/Acme/CPANModules/BrowsingTableInteractively.pm view on Meta::CPAN
This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Using the <pm:Tickit>
library, the advantages it's supposed to have is mouse support. It's still very
basic: you either have to specify each column width manually or the width of all
columns will be the same. There's no horizontal scrolling support or a way to
see long text in a column. Not updated since 2016.
4) **Term::TablePrint**, <pm:Term::TablePrint>
This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Provides roughly the same
features like Tickit::Widget::Table with an extra one: you can press Enter on a
row to view it as a "card" where each column will be displayed vertically, so
you can better see a row that has many columns or columns with long text.
There is currently no support beyond the most basic stuffs, so no column hiding,
reordering, etc.
5) **less**
Don't forget the good ol' Unix pager. You can render your table data as an ASCII
lib/Acme/CPANModules/BrowsingTableInteractively.pm view on Meta::CPAN
This list reviews what tools are available on CPAN and in general to browse
table data interactively.
Let me say first that the best tools are not Perl-based since sadly Perl is not
a favorite choice for writing tools these days. That said, Perl is still a great
glue to help make those tools work together better for you.
1) B<Visidata>, L<https://www.visidata.org>
This is currently my favorite. It's terminal-based, written in Python, and has
more features than any other tools currently written in Perl, by far. vd has
support for many formats, including CSV, TSV, Excel, JSON, and SQLite. It makes
it particularly easy to create summary for your table like histogram or
sum/average/max/min/etc, or add new columns, or edit some cells. It also has
visualization features like XY-plots.
It has the concept of "sheets" like sheets in a spreadsheet workbook so anytime
you filter rows/columns or create summary or do some other derivation from your
data, you create a new sheet which you can edit, save, and destroy later as
needed and go back to your original table. It even presents settings and
metadata as sheets so you can edit them as a normal sheet.
It has plugins, and I guess it should be simple enough to create a plugin so you
can filter rows or add columns using Perl expression instead of the default
Python, if needed.
lib/Acme/CPANModules/BrowsingTableInteractively.pm view on Meta::CPAN
My CLI framework L<Perinci::CmdLine> (L<Perinci::CmdLine::Lite>, v1.918+)
has support for Visidata. You can specify command-line option C<--format=vd> to
browse the output of your CLI program in Visidata.
2) B<DataTables>, L<https://datatables.net>
DataTables is a JavaScript (jQuery-based) library to add controls to your HTML
table so you can filter rows incrementally, sort rows, reorder columns, and so
on. It also has plugins to do more customized stuffs. I still prefer Visidata
most of the time because I am comfortable living in the terminal, but I
particularly love the incremental searching feature that comes built-in with
DataTables.
My CLI framework L<Perinci::CmdLine> (L<Perinci::CmdLine::Lite>, v1.918+)
also has support for DataTables. You can specify command-line option
C<--format=html+datatables> to output your CLI program's result as HTML table
(using L<Text::Table::HTML::DataTables>) when possible and then browse the
output in browser.
3) B<Tickit::Widget::Table>, L<Tickit::Widget::Table>
This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Using the L<Tickit>
library, the advantages it's supposed to have is mouse support. It's still very
basic: you either have to specify each column width manually or the width of all
columns will be the same. There's no horizontal scrolling support or a way to
see long text in a column. Not updated since 2016.
4) B<Term::TablePrint>, L<Term::TablePrint>
This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Provides roughly the same
features like Tickit::Widget::Table with an extra one: you can press Enter on a
row to view it as a "card" where each column will be displayed vertically, so
you can better see a row that has many columns or columns with long text.
There is currently no support beyond the most basic stuffs, so no column hiding,
reordering, etc.
5) B<less>
Don't forget the good ol' Unix pager. You can render your table data as an ASCII
table (using modules like L<Text::Table::More>, L<Text::ANSITable>, or
lib/Acme/CPANModules/BrowsingTableInteractively.pm view on Meta::CPAN
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2023, 2022, 2021 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
=head1 BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website L<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively>
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a
patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired
feature.
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