**fScan Reference Manual, Chapter 2 (CmdLineOptions): table_printf**

===== Table printf -- show formatted table data =====
**usage: -table printf TBLNAME FLAG FORMATSTR [OUTFILE]**\\

The PRINTF option allows you to specify a format string to print out each table row.
The format string uses format conversion codes starting with a '%' and ending with a '#', as in:\\
 **%W.PcN#**\\
W (width) and P (precision) are optional number values, indicating the width (in character spaces) and precision (values after the decimal point for numbers) to use in the display. If W is omitted there is no text padding.\\
The 'cN' specification indicates which table column value to insert in this location, where N is the column number (1-ncolumns). The format conversion string %W.PcN# will be converted to a C-style string, either "%W.Ps" or "%W.Pf", depending on whether the specified column contains text or numerical data.

There are 5 other special case conversion strings:\\
 **%W#** - this will be replaced by the current row number (as %Wd)\\
 **% %** - this will print out as a single '%' character\\
 **\t** - replaced with <Tab> character\\
 **\n** - replaced with <Newline> character\\
 **\r** - replaced with <Return> character\\


All other text characters in the format string will be copied directly to each line of output.

**See Also:**\\
[[jvs:fscan:manual:chapter2:table|Table]],
[[jvs:fscan:manual:chapter2:tableshow|Table Show]],
[[jvs:fscan:manual:chapter2:browse|Browse]] 

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