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man/widest.man

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+.TH widest "" "" "/rdb Command"
+.PC "Output the width of the widest entries in a table"
+\fBwidest < \fItable\fR
+.PP
+.II "column^find widest entry"
+.II "column^find widest rows"
+The command
+.B widest
+reads
+.I table
+and writes to the standard output a second table
+that gives the width of the widest entry in each column.
+.SH Example
+The command
+.DM
+	widest < inventory
+.DE
+.PP
+reads table
+.B inventory
+and writes something like the following to the standard output:
+.DM
+Item    Amount  Cost    Value   Description   
+----    ------  ----    -----   --------------
+4       6       4       5       14
+.DE
+.PP
+Each number is the width, in characters,
+.BR inventory 's
+the widest entry in that column.
+You can use this information for formatting.
+.B /rdb
+does not require a schema because it gets the parameters
+of the tables from the tables themselves.
+.SH "See Also"
+.B
+width
+.R
+.SO widest