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Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$
Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$
justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.</pre>
justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.</pre>

=={{header|OCaml}}==
<ocaml>#load "str.cma"
open Str

let input = "\
Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$
are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program
that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$
column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.
Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$
justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."

let () =
let lines = split (regexp_string "\n") input in
let fields_l = List.map (split (regexp_string "$")) lines in
let fields_l = List.map Array.of_list fields_l in
let n = (* number of columns *)
List.fold_left
(fun n fields -> max n (Array.length fields))
0 fields_l
in
let pads = Array.make n 0 in
List.iter (
(* calculate the max padding for each column *)
Array.iteri
(fun i word -> pads.(i) <- max pads.(i) (String.length word))
) fields_l;

let print f =
List.iter (fun fields ->
Array.iteri (fun i word ->
f word (pads.(i) - (String.length word))
) fields;
print_newline()
) fields_l;
in

(* left column-aligned output *)
print (fun word pad ->
let spaces = String.make pad ' ' in
Printf.printf "%s%s " word spaces);

(* right column-aligned output *)
print (fun word pad ->
let spaces = String.make pad ' ' in
Printf.printf "%s%s " spaces word);

(* center column-aligned output *)
print (fun word pad ->
let pad1 = pad / 2 in
let pad2 = pad - pad1 in
let sp1 = String.make pad1 ' ' in
let sp2 = String.make pad2 ' ' in
Printf.printf "%s%s%s " sp1 word sp2);
;;</ocaml>


=={{header|Python}}==
=={{header|Python}}==