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Kaunteya
Kaunteya

Reputation: 3090

Unicode characters for line drawing or box drawing

Hello I use following code to print tabulated out put of my database queries

printf("+----------+------------+\n");
printf("|  Col1    |  Col2      |\n);
printf("+----------+------------+\n");
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
   printf("|%8s|%8s|\n",str1,str2);
printf("+----------+------------+\n");

It just makes my db tables look good. But can any one suggest me a more decorative way. Can I use unicode characters to make it more appealing.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2066

Answers (2)

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 1328

You can use Curse (ncurses) library for this, or take a look at my project: libtprint - a simple library to print tabled data, https://github.com/wizzard/libtprint

Hope it helps !

Upvotes: 2

steveha
steveha

Reputation: 76715

Unicode does include some characters intended for this. Wikipedia has a list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character

Upvotes: 2

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