Width: Longest Line

This width calculator takes the longest line in each column and sets the column width to it. The calculator can be configured to use a minimum and maximum length for particular columns.

The following code shows a few examples for the behavior of this width calculator for a table with 5 columns and text of different length per column:

  • First example: the table without padding

  • Second example: calculator using a minimum length of 4 for the first column

  • Third example: calculator now also using a minimum width of 6 for the second column and a maximum width of 2 for the last column

  • Fourth example: same calculator but now with an additional row in the table using a conditional line break


  
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AsciiTable at = new AsciiTable();
at.addRule();
at.addRow("0", "1", "22", "333", "4444");
at.addRule();
CWC_LongestLine cwc = new CWC_LongestLine();

at.getRenderer().setCWC(cwc);
System.out.println(at.render());

cwc.add(4, 0);
System.out.println(at.render());

cwc.add(6, 0).add(0, 0).add(0, 0).add(0, 2);
System.out.println(at.render());

at.addRow("0", "1", "22", "333<br>55555", "4444");
at.addRule();
System.out.println(at.render());

The resulting output for the first example:

┌─┬─┬──┬───┬────┐
│0│1│22│333│4444│
└─┴─┴──┴───┴────┘

The resulting output for the second example:

┌────┬─┬──┬───┬────┐
│0   │1│22│333│4444│
└────┴─┴──┴───┴────┘

The resulting output for the third example:

┌────┬──────┬──┬───┬──┐
│0   │1     │22│333│44│
│    │      │  │   │44│
└────┴──────┴──┴───┴──┘

The resulting output for the fourth example:

┌────┬──────┬──┬─────┬──┐
│0   │1     │22│333  │44│
│    │      │  │     │44│
├────┼──────┼──┼─────┼──┤
│0   │1     │22│333  │44│
│    │      │  │55555│44│
└────┴──────┴──┴─────┴──┘