August 1998
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
39h 20m
English
You need to know the size of the terminal or window. For instance, you want to format text so that it doesn’t pass the right-hand boundary of the screen.
Either use the ioctl described in Section 12.14, or else use the CPAN module Term::ReadKey:
use Term::ReadKey; ($wchar, $hchar, $wpixels, $hpixels) = GetTerminalSize();
GetTerminalSize returns four elements: the width
and height in characters and the width and height in pixels. If the
operation is unsupported for the output device (for instance, if
output has been redirected to a file), it returns an empty list.
Here’s how you’d graph the contents of
@values, assuming no value is less than 0:
use Term::ReadKey;
($width) = GetTerminalSize();
die "You must have at least 10 characters" unless $width >= 10;
$max = 0;
foreach (@values) {
$max = $_ if $max < $_;
}
$ratio = ($width-10)/$max; # chars per unit
foreach (@values) {
printf("%8.1f %s\n", $_, "*" x ($ratio*$_));
}The documentation for the Term::ReadKey module from CPAN; Section 12.14