Introduction to + Text::Table  Hello, Perl bloggers! I decided
to start blogging about a most of my exclusively Perl-related
stuff here on, in hope of getting more comments from active
Perlers. (Until now, I've blogged about it on my technical
LiveJournal blog and previously on Journal.). You can learn more
about me on my home site - .  OK, having put that aside - let's
move on to the main topic of this post.  Many months ago I
wanted to use the Text::Table CPAN module to present a table
related to the meta-scan heuristics construction scheme of
Freecell Solver. Now, I wanted to present nicely formatted
borders, using the Unicode box-drawing characters (which some
people would recall from DOS). However, I found it difficult to
specify the separators in the rulers properly based on their
indices - they were assumed to be the same globally. As a
result, I've written a patch, and placed the modifications in a
github repository.  The author of Text-Table (ANNO) told me he
was working on a new version of Text-Tabl