On Monday, December 30, 2013 2:14:49 PM UTC, Charlie Garrison wrote:

> On 30/12/13 at 5:51 AM -0800, Melissa <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> >Does anyone know of a quick way to nicely format data into columns? 
>
> I don't believe there is a native method any longer (used to a 
> be a plugin for it ages ago). But `column` command could be used 
> in a filter. 
>
> Create a new file with the following contents: 
>
> #!/bin/sh 
> column -t 
>
> Save the file in BBEdit's 'Text Filters' folder and then run the 
> filter on your file. 
>
> Eg. using your sample data, it outputs: 
>
> Fruit       Colour  Amount 
> Apple       Green   2 
> Apple       Red     31 
> Grapefruit  Pink    1 
>

Thank you very much for this!

Or if you really want the entable script; I found it here (my 
> copy is 7 years old, so grab the latest): 
>
> <http://entable.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html> 
>

 Thank you -- I'll download it and give it a try as well.

Melissa

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