Talk:Align columns: Difference between revisions

I haven't read the J solution in depth yet, but it appears more complex than may be necessary. For example, with <tt>'LEFT CENTER RIGHT'=:i.2</tt> we can solve the task thus:

(#~ 0 1 $~ #) (9!:17 CENTER #~ 2 [ 9!:7 ' '$~11) (]":) 4 :'<;._2&.(,&x)y'S:0 /'$';LF;text

Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line

are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a

that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each

column are separated by at least one

Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left

justified, right justified, or center justified within its