.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