p-ranav/tabulate

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2174 stars · 156 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Tabulate is a header-only C++11+ library for creating formatted, aligned tables in the terminal, with support for font styles, colors, borders, word wrapping, nested tables, and UTF-8/multi-byte characters. It also exports tables to Markdown and AsciiDoc and ships as a single-header version for easy integration.

Use cases

• print aligned tables in a C++ CLI tool
• format terminal output with borders and colors
• render tables with UTF-8 and multi-byte character support
• export tabular data as Markdown or AsciiDoc
• build nested tables in C++ console applications
• add styled table output to a C++17 project without dependencies

When to choose

• you need pretty terminal table output in a C++ project with C++11 or later
• you want a dependency-free, header-only or single-header library
• you need Unicode-aware column alignment and rich formatting like colors and borders

When to avoid

• you need interactive TUI widgets beyond static tables (use FTXUI or ncurses)
• you are not writing C++
• you need GUI or HTML table rendering

Facets

library · maturity stable

cli developer-tools templating developer-tools cross-platform cpp cross-platform cli header-only single-header terminal-tables utf8 text-formatting markdown-export asciidoc-export command-line

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