text-utils is a collection of useful utilities for formatting text.

Add the following to your build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "software.purpledragon" %% "text-utils" % "<version>"

TableFormatter and SortedTableFormatter provide mechanisms for building and printing tabular data.

The simplest case is outputting a bare table without headers:

TableFormatter() .addRow("Apples", "25") .addRow("Pears", "10") .addRow("Bananas", "4") .print()

Will output:

Apples 25 Pears 10 Bananas 4 

Tables can also be sorted and have a header:

SortedTableFormatter("Produce", "Remaining") .addRow("Apples", "25") .addRow("Pears", "10") .addRow("Bananas", "4") .print()

Will output:

| Produce | Remaining | ----------------------- | Apples | 25 | | Bananas | 4 | | Pears | 10 | 

Full details can be found in the documentation.