procedure showtbl: show table contents
link showtbl
March 25, 2002; Ralph E. Griswold
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showtbl(title, tbl, sort_type, limit, sort_order, posit, w1, w2, gutter, f1, f2) displays tbl according to the arguments given. The arguments are: position name meaning default/alternative 1 title heading title "" 2 tbl table to be shown 3 sort_type type of sorting "ref"/"val" 4 limit lines of table output essentially infinite 5 sort_order increasing/decreasing "incr"/"decr" 6 posit first column "val"/"ref" 7 w1 width of 1st column 10 8 w2 width of 2nd column 10 9 gutter width between columns 3 10 f1 function of 1st column left 11 f2 function of 2nd column right showtbl() returns a record with the first element being a count of the size of the table and the second element the number of lines written. ____________________________________________________________ This procedure just grew. It needs rewriting. And it has far too many arguments. ____________________________________________________________ Deficiencies: Several features are not yet implemented. sort_order and posit have no effect. In the case of sort_type "val", the sorting order is decreasing.