On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:01:41PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 01/28/10 12:58 PM, Gary Pennington wrote:
> >Hi Danek,
> >
> >Without calculating the maximum width of the output data fields, it's
> >not possible to ensure that headers and data are correctly aligned when
> >the data is tab separated.
> >
> >I can accept that there's no need to make headers align with data when
> >the output is specified as -F tsv, but surely it's a good thing if it
> >is? Otherwise there would be no point in ever requesting that headers are
> >present with parseable data, in which case I would be back at the solution
> >that I supplied yesterday.
> 
> There's no reason to align the output if it is tab separated; it's a 
> parseable, although not necessarily human-parseable format.
> 
> If you were to dump the tsv output (with headers) to a file and open 
> that with a spreadsheet program, or had code that parsed it, it should 
> be able to discern which headers go with which values.
> 

I've removed the code that ensures headers and data are aligned in TSV
format. I've re-generated the webrev at the same location.


Gary

> -- 
> Shawn Walker
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