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Customize display width handling

Open eugene-bulkin opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

This is almost similar to #46 and the work done in #106, but I think it should be somewhat genericized.

Specifically, I'm using prettytable for an IRC bot, and IRC uses a different kind of format for colors: /\x03([\d]{2}(,[\d]{2})?)?/ is a rough estimate of the regex involved, but essentially I may print something that, raw, looks like \x0313foo\x03, which shows up as foo but in pink. Notice that the two unprintable characters are fine here, but there are two usually printable characters (13) whose purpose is overriden and "eaten up" by the IRC client when formatting.

As a result, if I try to use this in a table, my columns will be missing two characters when it comes to padding because the display width is calculated to be 2 characters longer than it should be. Now, I don't think we should put an IRC color formatting regex in there for all purposes since not everyone would be using it. Perhaps it could be added as a crate feature?

eugene-bulkin avatar Dec 24 '19 22:12 eugene-bulkin