How to Display Tables in a Go CLI

Go has no built-in table formatter for CLI output, so you must use a third-party library like github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter to render tabular data. Install the library and pass your data slice to NewWriter to generate the formatted table.

import "github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter"

data := [][]string{
	{"Name", "Age"},
	{"Alice", "30"},
	{"Bob", "25"},
}
table := tablewriter.NewWriter(os.Stdout)
table.AppendBulk(data)
table.Render()

Go does not include a native tool to print data in rows and columns within the terminal. You need to add an external helper library that takes your list of data and automatically draws lines and spacing to make it look like a spreadsheet. This is similar to using a spreadsheet program to format a list of numbers before printing it.