README.md

NightStand

Tabular data pretty-printer in the console.

Quick Start

Usage is simple and straight forward.

First import NightStand.

using NightStand;

Then define your table.

As an example lets imagine that we want to print some information derived from Person objects. The following is a simple example of how to do so.

var peopleTable = new Table<Person>
{
    Columns =
    {
        new Column<Person>("Full Name", s => s.FullName),
        new Column<Person>("Gender", s => s.Gender.ToString()),
        new Column<Person>("Birth Date", s => s.DateOfBirth.ToShortDateString()),
        new Column<Person>("City", s => s.Address.City),
        new Column<Person>("State", s => s.Address.State),
    }
};

Once defined that table can be passed to a TableWriter instance such as the ConsoleTableWriter.

// Some sample data
var people = new List<Person>();

// Generate person objects...

ConsoleTableWriter<Person> consoleWriter = new ConsoleTableWriter<Person>();

consoleWriter.Draw(table: peopleTable, items: people);

Sample output

More Info

For more information, check the documentation.