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format
Format columns into a string using a simple pattern
Syntax: format <pattern>
Parameters
<pattern>: the pattern to match
Example
Let's say we have a table like this:
> open pets.csv
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# │ animal │ name │ age
───┼───────────┼────────┼─────
0 │ cat │ Tom │ 7
1 │ dog │ Alfred │ 10
2 │ chameleon │ Linda │ 1
━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━
format allows us to convert table data into a string by following a formatting pattern. To print the value of a column we have to put the column name in curly brackets:
> open pets.csv | format "{name} is a {age} year old {animal}"
━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# │ <value>
───┼─────────────────────────────────
0 │ Tom is a 7 year old cat
1 │ Alfred is a 10 year old dog
2 │ Linda is a 1 year old chameleon
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