November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
12h 45m
English
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A Crazy Formatting Trick for Creating Pretty Tables of Data
Let’s look at one last format example that uses some of the control sequences you’ve already seen, as well as some new ones. This example will illustrate how the varied control sequences can be combined for complex behavior.
> (format t "|˜{˜<|˜%|˜,33:;˜2d ˜>˜}|" (loop for x below 100 collect x))
| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
|10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 |
|20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 |
|30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 |
|40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 |
|50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 |
|60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 |
|70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 |
|80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 |
|90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 |To create this nicely formatted table of numbers, we first use the looping control ...
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