libfort/docs/tutorial/CPP_API/Table-life-cycle.md

The common libfort table life cycle:

• create a table (with default constructor, copy constructor or move constructor);
• fill it with data (operator <<, operator[], write_ln ...);
• modify basic table appearance;
• convert table to string representation (to_string) and print it.

All resources allocated during table lifetime will be automatically freed in destructor.

Example:

fort::char_table table;                                                
table << fort::header                                             
    << "N" << "Driver" << "Time" << "Avg Speed" << fort::endr     
    << "1" << "Ricciardo" << "1:25.945" << "47.362" << fort::endr 
    << "2" << "Hamilton" << "1:26.373" << "35.02" << fort::endr   
    << "3" << "Verstappen" << "1:26.469" << "29.78" << fort::endr;
                                                                  
std::cout << table.to_string() << std::endl;                      

Output:

+---+------------+----------+-----------+
| N | Driver     | Time     | Avg Speed |
+---+------------+----------+-----------+
| 1 | Ricciardo  | 1:25.945 | 47.362    |
| 2 | Hamilton   | 1:26.373 | 35.02     |
| 3 | Verstappen | 1:26.469 | 29.78     |
+---+------------+----------+-----------+