---
name: "Term::Table::Util"
section: "3perl"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl"
version: "5.44.0-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Term::Table::Util/3perl"
---

# Term::Table::Util(3perl)

Utilities for Term::Table.

## NAME

Term::Table::Util - Utilities for Term::Table.

## DESCRIPTION

This package exports some tools used by Term::Table.

## EXPORTS

### CONSTANTS

- $bool = USE\_GCS

  True if Unicode::GCString is installed.

- $bool = USE\_TERM\_READKEY

  True if Term::ReadKey is installed.

### UTILITIES

- $width = **term\_size()**

  Get the width of the terminal.

  If the `$TABLE_TERM_SIZE` environment variable is set then that value will be returned.

  This will default to 80 if there is no good way to get the size, or if the size is unreasonably small.

  If Term::ReadKey is installed it will be used.

- $width = uni\_length($string)

  Get the width (in columns) of the specified string. When Unicode::GCString is installed this will work on unicode strings, otherwise it will just use `length($string)`.

## SOURCE

The source code repository for Term-Table can be found at *http://github.com/exodist/Term-Table/*.

## MAINTAINERS

- Chad Granum \<exodist@cpan.org\>

  ## AUTHORS

- Chad Granum \<exodist@cpan.org\>

  ## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2016 Chad Granum \<exodist@cpan.org\>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See *http://dev.perl.org/licenses/*