/// <summary>
/// Creates a "PlainTextTable" instance with the fields in this definition, for fixed length column plain text output
/// </summary>
/// <param name="rows">The rows of data to tabulate</param>
/// <param name="tab">Optional, if specified adds the tabulated data to the table. A new instance will be created and returned if this is null.</param>
/// <returns>Either the PlainTextTable instance that was passed in, or a new instance of a PlainTextTable, populated with the data from the rows.</returns>
public PlainTextTable Tabulate(IEnumerable <T> rows, PlainTextTable tab = null)
{
if (null == tab)
{
tab = new PlainTextTable();
}
var columns = this
.Where(
x => x.ShouldInclude
)
.ToArray();
string[] line = columns
.Select(
x => x.Label ?? x.Key
)
.ToArray();
tab.AddRow(line); // header
foreach (T row in rows)
{
line = columns
.Select(
x => x.PickValue(row)
)
.ToArray();
tab.AddRow(line);
}
return(tab);
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates a "PlainTextTable" instance with the fields in this definition, for fixed length column plain text output
/// </summary>
/// <param name="rows">The rows of data to tabulate</param>
/// <param name="tab">Optional, if specified adds the tabulated data to the table. A new instance will be created and returned if this is null.</param>
/// <returns>Either the PlainTextTable instance that was passed in, or a new instance of a PlainTextTable, populated with the data from the rows.</returns>
public PlainTextTable Tabulate(IEnumerable <T> rows, PlainTextTable tab = null)
{
if (null == tab)
{
tab = new PlainTextTable();
}
string[] line = this.Select(x => x.Key).ToArray();
tab.AddRow(line); // header
foreach (T row in rows)
{
line = this.Select(x => x.Value(row)).ToArray();
tab.AddRow(line);
}
return(tab);
}