Formatted Table

Overview

This is my first C++ project, created for learning purposes only. Displays a formatted terminal table from a CSV source file containing name, age, and gender data.

Usage

For macos/linux:

./formatted-table <csv-file> [options]

For Windows:

./formatted-table.exe <csv-file> [options]

Parameters

• csv-file: Path to the input CSV data file (required).

Options

• -n, --name-width: Custom width for the 'Name' column (default: 25).
• -a, --age-width: Custom width for the 'Age' column (default: 5).
• -g, --gender-width: Custom width for the 'Gender' column (default: 6).

Examples

# Default table column width configuration.
./formatted-table data.csv

# Custom table column width configuration.
./formatted-table data.csv -n 20 -a 8 -g 8
./formatted-table data.csv --name-width 20 --age-width 8 --gender-width

Features

• Validates CSV file extension.
• Enforces positive column width.
• Prints table from CSV file.

Dependencies

• C++20 compliant compiler.
• p-ranav/argparse for CLI argument parsing.
• fmt for pretty printing table.

Implementation

• Populates data using people::populatePeopleListFromCSV().
• Generates ASCII borders and aligns columns dynamically.
• Error handling for invalid inputs.

Build (Or Download)

Use this for building this project in the current directory:

cmake -B build -S .
cd build && make

There will appear a formatted-table (or formatted-table.exe) file, in the build/ directory. Another option would be to download directly from releases tab.