X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.nl/barcat.git/blobdiff_plain/e40f2d7b5bec7ae512a9e005786905d090cd5bfe..ba4406a60d218341b89196f2466459e4b2384996:/barcat

diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index b0de950..a69bbe5 100755
--- a/barcat
+++ b/barcat
@@ -29,7 +29,17 @@ GetOptions(\%opt,
 		$opt{trim} = $optval;
 	},
 	'value-length=i',
-	'limit|L=i',
+	'hidemin=i',
+	'hidemax=i',
+	'limit|L=s' => sub {
+		my ($optname, $optval) = @_;
+		$optval ||= 0;
+		($opt{hidemin}, $opt{hidemax}) =
+		$optval =~ m/\A (?: ([0-9]+)? - )? ([0-9]+)? \z/x or die(
+			"Value \"$optval\" invalid for option limit",
+			" (range expected)\n"
+		);
+	},
 	'markers|m=s',
 	'unmodified|u!',
 	'width|w=i',
@@ -76,16 +86,16 @@ $SIG{INT} = 'DEFAULT';
 
 sub show_lines {
 
-state $nr = 0;
+state $nr = $opt{hidemin} ? $opt{hidemin} - 1 : 0;
 @lines and @lines > $nr or return;
 
 my @order  = sort { $b <=> $a } grep { length } @values;
-my $maxval = $opt{limit} ? max @values[0 .. $opt{limit} - 1] : $order[0];
+my $maxval = $opt{hidemax} ? max @values[0 .. $opt{hidemax} - 1] : $order[0];
 my $minval = min $order[-1], 0;
 my $lenval = $opt{'value-length'} // max map { length } @order;
 my $len    = defined $opt{trim} && $opt{trim} <= 0 ? -$opt{trim} + 1 :
 	max map { length $values[$_] && length $lines[$_] }
-		0 .. min $#lines, $opt{limit} || ();  # left padding
+		0 .. min $#lines, $opt{hidemax} || ();  # left padding
 my $size   = ($maxval - $minval) &&
 	($opt{width} - $lenval - $len) / ($maxval - $minval);  # bar multiplication
 
@@ -114,6 +124,7 @@ if ($opt{markers} // 1 and $size > 0) {
 }
 
 while ($nr <= $#lines) {
+	$nr >= $opt{hidemax} and last if $opt{hidemax};
 	my $val = $values[$nr];
 	if (length $val) {
 		my $color = !$opt{color} ? 0 :
@@ -129,7 +140,6 @@ while ($nr <= $#lines) {
 	say '';
 
 	$nr++;
-	$nr >= $opt{limit} and last if $opt{limit};
 }
 
 }
@@ -187,7 +197,7 @@ unless C<--length=0>.
 Prepend a dash (i.e. make negative) to enforce padding
 regardless of encountered contents.
 
-=item -L, --limit=<count>
+=item -L, --limit=(<count>|<start>-[<end>])
 
 Stop output after a number of lines.
 All input is still counted and analyzed for statistics,