TAB2GRAPH(1p)

💖 TAB2GRAPH 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the tab2graph page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, manual page TAB2GRAPH(1p) 🎀 this little icon turns tabular data into a graph and honestly? it's giving main character energy.

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✨ NAME ✨

tab2graph — turn tabular data into a graph 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tab2graph [options] file.tab

Options:

-c|--color           Add some color to the output (default is white)
-d|--directed        Make graph directed (default is not)
-l|--layout          GraphViz layout; choose from dot, neato, twopi,
                     circo (default), and fdp
-f|--fields          Restrict to set of fields in first row
-n|--numbers         Show the numbers (default is not)
-o|--out             Name of output file (default is STDOUT)
--format             Output format (default is PNG)
--fs=x               Use "x" as the field separator (default is tab)
--rs=x               Use "x" as the record separator (default is newline)

--help               Show brief help and quit
--man                Show full documentation

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -c, --color — bestie, add some color to the output 💅 (default is white, so if you want the lewk you gotta ask for it)
• -d, --directed — make the graph directed ➡️ (default is not, so it's undirected unless you say otherwise)
• -l, --layout — the GraphViz layout, pick your fighter: dot, neato, twopi, circo (that's the default 🌈) and fdp
• -f, --fields — restrict to a set of fields in the first row, very demure, very mindful 🎀
• -n, --numbers — show the numbers 🔢 (default is not)
• -o, --out — name of the output file (default is STDOUT, so it just vibes out to your terminal)
• --format — output format (default is PNG 🖼️)
• --fs=x — use "x" as the field separator (default is tab)
• --rs=x — use "x" as the record separator (default is newline)
• --help — show brief help and quit, no notes 👋
• --man — show full documentation, aka the whole lore 📖

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Turns tabular data into a graph using GraphViz. This may or may not be useful.

fr fr, that's the whole pitch. it might change your life, it might not, but it will make a graph ✨

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• Text::RecordParser
• GraphViz

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Ken Youens-Clark <kclark@cpan.org>. 💖

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📜 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (C) 2009-10 Ken Youens-Clark. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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ok so like, technically all of that license text is the actual legal vibe — don't skip it, it's not decorative 😭

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