MatrixPrinter

This C++ project prints out a matrix with a custom number of columns and rows. The rows are labeled with numbers and the columns are labeled with the 26 letters.

How to use

First, include the header file of MatrixPrinter. (You can find it inside the src folder in the GitHub repository.)
For example, if you have the following project structure:

- includes/
  - matrixPrinter.h
- src/
  - project.cpp

you need to add the following line next to your other includes:
#include "../includes/matrixPrinter.h"

To draw a matrix the function drawBoard() inside the namespace matrixPrinter is used.

The function requires the following parameters:

• A vector variable, which has elements of type string. Inside this variable are the characters in each cell from left to right, top to bottom.
• The number of columns stored as an integer.
  
• The number of rows stored as an integer.
  
• Every nth bold column line inside the matrix. (optional)
  
• Every nth bold row line inside the matrix. (optional)
  

Example:

vector<string> cells = { "1", "2", "3", "4",
                         "5", " ", "a", "8", 
                         "9", "1", "2", "3",
                         "4", "5", "6", "7" };
int rows = 4;
int cols = 4;

matrixPrinter::drawBoard(cells, cols, rows, 2, 2);

When the function is called, the console output should look like this:

     A   B   C   D 
   ┌───┬───┰───┬───┐
 1 │ 1 │ 2 ┃ 3 │ 4 │
   ├───┼───╂───┼───┤
 2 │ 5 │   ┃ a │ 8 │
   ┝━━━┿━━━╋━━━┿━━━┥
 3 │ 9 │ 1 ┃ 2 │ 3 │
   ├───┼───╂───┼───┤
 4 │ 4 │ 5 ┃ 6 │ 7 │
   └───┴───┸───┴───┘

Building your project

When you build your project the library needs to be linked properly, otherwise you will recieve errors.
Using the following project structure:

- includes/
  - matrixPrinter.h
- lib/
  - libMatrixPrinter.a
- out/
- src/
  - project.cpp

this is how you would build your project with the library using g++ on linux:
g++ -L/path/to/ProjectFolder/lib /path/to/ProjectFolder/src/project.cpp -o /path/to/ProjectFolder/out/projectOut -lMatrixPrinter

The compiled library can be found inside the GitHub repository (out/libMatrixPrinter.a), otherwise you will need to build it yourself.