Align columns: Difference between revisions

fieldsbyrow = [line.strip().split('$') for line in infile]

# pad to same number of fields per row

fieldsbyrow = [row + ['']*(maxfields - len(row))

for row in fieldsbyrow]

justifier = J2justifier[justification]

# pad to same number of fields per record

}

# calculate max fieldwidth per column

column.map {|field| field.length}.max

}

# pad fields in columns to colwidth with spaces

}

end