+----------------------------------------+ |Awk - Layout Functions | |Written by Wim Stockman - on 06 Oct 2020| +----------------------------------------+ Awk is by far my favourite tool: So here is some need trick: Some Useful Awk Layout Function to line out your Plain Text for your gopher page for instance 1. The first function left fills with a paddingchar: '''CodeSnippet function leftfill(text,width,paddingchar){ if(!paddingchar){paddingchar=" ";} size=length(text)+1; out=""; for(i=size;i<=width;i++){ out = out paddingchar;} out = out text; paddingchar=" " ; print(out); } ''' Which fills up the left side of your text with a paddinchar. Default Paddingchar is Usage: leftfill(Text,75,"-"); Example: -----------------------------------------------------------------Left Fill 2. The centertext function centers the text in your giving width '''CodeSnippet function centertext(text,width,paddingchar) { size=length(text); out=""; insertpos=int((width-size)/2); if(!paddingchar){paddingchar=" ";} for(i=0;i<=width;i++) { if(i==insertpos) {out= out text; i=i+size} else { out = out paddingchar; } } print(out); } ''' and you can add a paddingchar to fill up both left and rigt side Default Paddingchar is Usage: centertex(text,width,"-") Example: -------------------------------Center Text-------------------------------- 3. Rightfill with a paddingchar: '''CodeSnippet function rightfill(text,width,paddingchar) { if(!paddingchar){paddingchar=" ";} size=length(text)+1; out=text; for(i=size;i<=width;i++){ out = out paddingchar;} paddingchar=" " ; print(out); } ''' Which fills up the right side of your text with a paddinchar. Default Paddingchar is Usage: rightfill(Text,75,"-"); Right Fill---------------------------------------------------------------- To Use these awk function inside your awk scripts you can copy and paste them or save them to a file:e.g. layout_func.awk and include them with the: @include layout_func.awk To use it on the command line for example creating a cool gopher page Title you can use it: awk -f layout_func.awk '{centertext($0,75,"-")}' +--------------------------------------------------+ |Suggestions? gopher@yasendfile.org | +--------------------------------------------------+