NAME Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively - Browsing table data interactively VERSION This document describes version 0.003 of Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModules-BrowsingTableInteractively), released on 2021-05-01. DESCRIPTION This list catalogs are some options on CPAN if you have a table data (typically as an array of arrayrefs) and want to browse it interactively. ACME::CPANMODULES ENTRIES * Tickit::Table::Widget This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Using the Tickit library, the advantages it's supposed to have is mouse support. It's still very basic: you either have to specify each column width manually or the width of all columns will be the same. There's no horizontal scrolling support or a way to see long text in a column. Not updated since 2016. * Term::TablePrint This module lets you browse the table in a terminal. Provides roughly the same features like Tickit::Table::Widget with an extra one: you can press Enter on a row to view it as a "card" where each column will be displayed vertically, so you can better see a row that has many columns or columns with long text. * Text::Table::HTML::DataTables Personally, all the terminal modules listed here (Term::TablePrint and Tickit::Table::Widget) are currently not satisfactory for me. They are not that much better than drawing the text table (using something like Text::Table::More or Text::ANSITable) and then piping the output through a pager like *less*. At least with *less* you can scroll horizontally or perform incremental searching (though not interactive filtering of rows). Text::Table::HTML::DataTables bundles the wonderful DataTables [1] JavaScript library and lets you see your table in a web browser to interact with. I use this method the most often (usually through my CLI framework and the option "--format=html+datatables" specified through my CLIs). The main advantage is incremental searching/filtering. DataTables also lets you hide/show/reorder columns, change the page size, and so on. This is leaps and bounds more useful than simply scrolling pages of text provided by Tickit::Table::Widget or Term::TablePrint. [1] FAQ What is an Acme::CPANModules::* module? An Acme::CPANModules::* module, like this module, contains just a list of module names that share a common characteristics. It is a way to categorize modules and document CPAN. See Acme::CPANModules for more details. What are ways to use this Acme::CPANModules module? Aside from reading this Acme::CPANModules module's POD documentation, you can install all the listed modules (entries) using cpanmodules CLI (from App::cpanmodules distribution): % cpanmodules ls-entries BrowsingTableInteractively | cpanm -n or Acme::CM::Get: % perl -MAcme::CM::Get=BrowsingTableInteractively -E'say $_->{module} for @{ $LIST->{entries} }' | cpanm -n or directly: % perl -MAcme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively -E'say $_->{module} for @{ $Acme::CPANModules::BrowsingTableInteractively::LIST->{entries} }' | cpanm -n This Acme::CPANModules module also helps lcpan produce a more meaningful result for "lcpan related-mods" command when it comes to finding related modules for the modules listed in this Acme::CPANModules module. HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature. SEE ALSO Acme::CPANModules - about the Acme::CPANModules namespace cpanmodules - CLI tool to let you browse/view the lists AUTHOR perlancar COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2021 by perlancar@cpan.org. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.