James K. Lowden wrote: > I recently wrote a utility to produce simple reports. > > https://github.com/jklowden/sqlrpt > > Numeric columns are aligned on the decimal point and formatted > with the thousands separator consistent with the locale. > > Wide text columns are formatted to fit nicely on the page.
James .... I installed your sqlrpt program under debian linux and managed to successfully run it with an sql query from a file .... $ sqlrpt -d ../db/test.sql3 -q "`cat stocks_list.sql`" > stocks.out and display the output via the man command .... $ man ./stocks.out ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │date trans name qty price amount │ ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Bank of America 30.000000 11.280000 338.400000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Citigroup 500.000000 39.850000 19,925.000000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Ford Motor 300.000000 14.010000 4,203.000000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY General Electric 100.000000 18.820000 1,882.000000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Jp Morgan Chase 500.000000 41.570000 20,785.000000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Nokia 50.000000 6.660000 333.000000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Pfizer 100.000000 20.840000 2,084.000000 │ │2006‐01‐05 BUY Red Hat 100.000000 35.130000 3,513.000000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Sprint Nextel 200.000000 5.670000 1,134.000000 │ │2011‐06‐04 BUY Wells Fargo 300.000000 26.860000 8,058.000000 │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The question is .... Can the floating point numbers be formatted for example .... ah la .... %8.4f I have seen the width option under the format column specifiers in man tbl but haven't tried using it with the sqlrpt -f option .... -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users