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=={{header|Visual Basic}}== |
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<lang vb>Sub AlignCols(Lines, Optional Align As AlignmentConstants, Optional Sep$ = "$", Optional Sp% = 1) |
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Dim i&, j&, D&, L&, R&: ReDim W(UBound(Lines)): ReDim C&(0) |
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For j = 0 To UBound(W) |
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W(j) = Split(Lines(j), Sep) |
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If UBound(W(j)) > UBound(C) Then ReDim Preserve C(UBound(W(j))) |
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For i = 0 To UBound(W(j)): If Len(W(j)(i)) > C(i) Then C(i) = Len(W(j)(i)) |
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Next i, j |
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For j = 0 To UBound(W): For i = 0 To UBound(W(j)) |
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D = C(i) - Len(W(j)(i)) |
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L = Choose(Align + 1, 0, D, D \ 2) |
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R = Choose(Align + 1, D, 0, D - L) + Sp |
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Debug.Print Space(L); W(j)(i); Space(R); IIf(i < UBound(W(j)), "", vbLf); |
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Next i, j |
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End Sub</lang> |
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Usage:<lang vb>Sub Main() 'usage of the above |
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Const Text$ = "Given$W$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$W$line$" & vbLf & _ |
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"are$delineated$by$W$single$'dollar'$character,$write$W$program" & vbLf & _ |
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"that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" & vbLf & _ |
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"column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." & vbLf & _ |
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"Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$W$column$to$be$either$left$" & vbLf & _ |
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"justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column." |
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Debug.Print vbLf; "-- Left:": AlignCols Split(Text, vbLf), vbLeftJustify |
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Debug.Print vbLf; "-- Center:": AlignCols Split(Text, vbLf), vbCenter |
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Debug.Print vbLf; "-- Right:": AlignCols Split(Text, vbLf), vbRightJustify |
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End Sub</lang> |
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Output:<pre>-- Left: |
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Given W text file of many lines, where fields within W line |
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are delineated by W single 'dollar' character, write W program |
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that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each |
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column are separated by at least one space. |
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Further, allow for each word in W column to be either left |
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justified, right justified, or center justified within its column. |
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-- Center: |
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Given W text file of many lines, where fields within W line |
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are delineated by W single 'dollar' character, write W program |
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that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each |
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column are separated by at least one space. |
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Further, allow for each word in W column to be either left |
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justified, right justified, or center justified within its column. |
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-- Right: |
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Given W text file of many lines, where fields within W line |
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are delineated by W single 'dollar' character, write W program |
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that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each |
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column are separated by at least one space. |
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Further, allow for each word in W column to be either left |
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justified, right justified, or center justified within its column. </pre> |
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=={{header|Visual Basic .NET}}== |
=={{header|Visual Basic .NET}}== |
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Revision as of 03:35, 13 November 2014
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
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.
Use the following text to test your programs:
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.
Note that:
- The example input texts lines may, or may not, have trailing dollar characters.
- All columns should share the same alignment.
- Consecutive space characters produced adjacent to the end of lines are insignificant for the purposes of the task.
- Output text will be viewed in a mono-spaced font on a plain text editor or basic terminal.
- The minimum space between columns should be computed from the text and not hard-coded.
- It is not a requirement to add separating characters between or around columns.
ABAP
<lang ABAP>report z_align no standard page header. start-of-selection.
data: lt_strings type standard table of string,
lv_strings type string.
append: 'Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$' to lt_strings,
'are$delineated$by$a$single$dollar$character,$write$a$program' to lt_strings,
'that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$' to lt_strings,
'column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.' to lt_strings,
'Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$' to lt_strings,
'justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.' to lt_strings.
types ty_strings type standard table of string.
perform align_col using 'LEFT' lt_strings. skip. perform align_col using 'RIGHT' lt_strings. skip. perform align_col using 'CENTER' lt_strings.
form align_col using iv_just type string iv_strings type ty_strings.
constants: c_del value '$'.
data: lv_string type string,
lt_strings type table of string,
lt_tables like table of lt_strings,
lv_first type string,
lv_second type string,
lv_longest type i value 0,
lv_off type i value 0,
lv_len type i.
" Loop through the supplied text. It is expected at the input is a table of strings, with each
" entry in the table representing a new line of the input.
loop at iv_strings into lv_string.
" Split the current line at the delimiter.
split lv_string at c_del into lv_first lv_second.
" Loop through the line splitting at every delimiter.
do.
append lv_first to lt_strings.
lv_len = strlen( lv_first ).
" Check if the length of the new string is greater than the currently stored length.
if lv_len > lv_longest.
lv_longest = lv_len.
endif.
if lv_second na c_del.
" Check if the string is longer than the recorded maximum.
lv_len = strlen( lv_second ).
if lv_len > lv_longest.
lv_longest = lv_len.
endif.
append lv_second to lt_strings.
exit.
endif.
split lv_second at c_del into lv_first lv_second.
enddo.
append lt_strings to lt_tables. clear lt_strings. endloop.
" Loop through each line of input.
loop at lt_tables into lt_strings.
" Loop through each word in the line (Separated by specified delimiter).
loop at lt_strings into lv_string.
lv_off = ( sy-tabix - 1 ) * ( lv_longest + 2 ).
case iv_just.
when 'LEFT'.
write : at (lv_longest) lv_string left-justified.
when 'RIGHT'.
write at (lv_longest) lv_string right-justified.
when 'CENTER'.
write at (lv_longest) lv_string centered.
endcase.
endloop.
skip.
sy-linno = sy-linno - 1.
endloop.
endform.</lang>
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.
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.
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.
Ada
<lang ada>with Ada.Characters.Latin_1; use Ada.Characters.Latin_1; with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; with Strings_Edit; use Strings_Edit;
procedure Column_Aligner is
Text : constant String :=
"Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" & NUL &
"are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" & NUL &
"that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" & NUL &
"column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." & NUL &
"Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" & NUL &
"justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column." & NUL;
File : File_Type;
Width : array (1..1_000) of Natural := (others => 0);
Line : String (1..200);
Column : Positive := 1;
Start : Positive := 1;
Pointer : Positive;
begin
Create (File, Out_File, "columned.txt");
-- Determining the widths of columns
for I in Text'Range loop
case Text (I) is
when '$' | NUL =>
Width (Column) := Natural'Max (Width (Column), I - Start + 1);
Start := I + 1;
if Text (I) = NUL then
Column := 1;
else
Column := Column + 1;
end if;
when others =>
null;
end case;
end loop;
-- Formatting
for Align in Alignment loop
Column := 1;
Start := 1;
Pointer := 1;
for I in Text'Range loop
case Text (I) is
when '$' | NUL =>
Put -- Formatted output of a word
( Destination => Line,
Pointer => Pointer,
Value => Text (Start..I - 1),
Field => Width (Column),
Justify => Align
);
Start := I + 1;
if Text (I) = NUL then
Put_Line (File, Line (1..Pointer - 1));
Pointer := 1;
Column := 1;
else
Column := Column + 1;
end if;
when others =>
null;
end case;
end loop;
end loop;
Close (File);
end Column_Aligner;</lang> Formatted file sample:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
ALGOL 68
<lang algol68>STRING nl = REPR 10; STRING text in list := "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$"+nl+
"are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program"+nl+ "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$"+nl+ "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space."+nl+ "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$"+nl+ "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.";
MODE PAGE = FLEX[0,0]STRING; PAGE page;
PROC flex page = (PAGE in page, INT row, col)PAGE:(
HEAP FLEX[row, col]STRING out page; out page[:1 UPB in page, :2 UPB in page] := in page; FOR r TO row DO FOR c FROM 2 UPB in page + 1 TO col DO out page[r,c]:="" OD OD; FOR r FROM 1 UPB in page + 1 TO row DO FOR c FROM 1 TO col DO out page[r,c]:="" OD OD; out page
);
FILE text in file; associate(text in file, text in list); make term(text in file, "$");
on physical file end(text in file, (REF FILE skip)BOOL: stop iteration); on logical file end(text in file, (REF FILE skip)BOOL: stop iteration); FOR row DO
on line end(text in file, (REF FILE skip)BOOL: stop iteration); FOR col DO STRING tok; getf(text in file, ($gx$,tok)); IF row > 1 UPB page THEN page := flex page(page, row, 2 UPB page) FI; IF col > 2 UPB page THEN page := flex page(page, 1 UPB page, col) FI; page[row,col]:=tok OD; stop iteration: SKIP
OD; stop iteration:
SKIP;
BEGIN
PROC aligner = (PAGE in page, PROC (STRING,INT)STRING aligner)VOID:(
PAGE page := in page;
[2 UPB page]INT max width;
FOR col TO 2 UPB page DO
INT max len:=0; FOR row TO UPB page DO IF UPB page[row,col]>max len THEN max len:=UPB page[row,col] FI OD;
FOR row TO UPB page DO page[row,col] := aligner(page[row,col], maxlen) OD
OD;
printf(($n(UPB page)(n(2 UPB page -1)(gx)gl)$,page))
);
PROC left = (STRING in, INT len)STRING: in + " "*(len - UPB in),
right = (STRING in, INT len)STRING: " "*(len - UPB in) + in,
centre = (STRING in, INT len)STRING: ( INT pad=len-UPB in; pad%2*" "+ in + (pad-pad%2)*" " );
[]STRUCT(STRING name, PROC(STRING,INT)STRING align) aligners = (("Left",left), ("Left",right), ("Centre",centre));
FOR index TO UPB aligners DO
print((new line, "# ",name OF aligners[index]," Column-aligned output:",new line));
aligner(page, align OF aligners[index])
OD
END</lang>
AutoHotkey
<lang AutoHotkey>lines = ( |$|$|$|$|$|$|$|$|$|$|$| Given$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. )
Clipboard := ColumnJustify(lines, "l")
MsgBox, , Column Justify, The clipboard now contains the justified text. Paste it into a text editor to see it.
ColumnJustify(lines, lcr = "l", del="$") {
Loop, Parse, lines, `n, `r
Loop, Parse, A_LoopField, %del%
{
If ((t := StrLen(A_LoopField)) > c%A_Index% )
c%A_Index% := t
If (t > max)
max := t
}
blank := Fill( " ", max )
If (lcr = "l") ;left-justify
Loop, Parse, lines, `n, `r
Loop, Parse, A_LoopField, %del%
out .= (A_Index = 1 ? "`n" : " ") SubStr(A_LoopField blank, 1, c%A_Index%)
Else If (lcr = "r") ;right-justify
Loop, Parse, lines, `n, `r
Loop, Parse, A_LoopField, %del%
out .= (A_Index = 1 ? "`n" : " ") SubStr(blank A_LoopField, -c%A_Index%+1)
Else If (lcr = "c") ;center-justify
Loop, Parse, lines, `n, `r
Loop, Parse, A_LoopField, %del%
out .= (A_Index = 1 ? "`n" : " ") SubStr(blank A_LoopField blank
, (Ceil((max * 2 + StrLen(A_LoopField))/2) - Ceil(c%A_Index%/2) + 1)
, c%A_Index%)
return SubStr(out, 2)
}
Fill(chr, len) {
static y if !y VarSetCapacity(x, 64), VarSetCapacity(x, 0), y := True return x, VarSetCapacity(x, len, Asc(chr))
}</lang>
AutoIt
<lang AutoIt>
- == If the given text is in an file, it will read with
- include <File.au3>
Global $aRead _FileReadToArray($sPath, $aRead) ; == $aRead[0] includes count of lines, every line stored in one item (without linebreak)
- == For example we get the same result with StringSplit()
Global $sText = _ "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" & @CRLF & _ "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" & @CRLF & _ "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" & @CRLF & _ "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." & @CRLF & _ "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" & @CRLF & _ "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column." & @CRLF
$aRead = StringSplit($sText, @CRLF, 1)
- == strip leading and trailing "$" and trailing spaces, count remaining "$" to get max column number
Global $iMaxColumn = 0, $iLines = 0 For $i = 1 To $aRead[0] If $aRead[$i] = Then ContinueLoop ; skip empty lines $iLines += 1 $aRead[$i] = StringRegExpReplace(StringRegExpReplace(StringRegExpReplace($aRead[$i], '^\$', ), '\$$', ), '\s*$', ) StringReplace($aRead[$i], '$', '$') If @extended +1 > $iMaxColumn Then $iMaxColumn = @extended +1 Next
- == build array to store all fields and length of every item
Global $aFields[$iLines][$iMaxColumn +1][2]
- == and store the max. length of item in columns
Global $aColLen[$iMaxColumn]
- == fill the array
Global $aSplitLine $iLines = 0 For $i = 1 To $aRead[0] If $aRead[$i] = Then ContinueLoop ; skip empty lines $iMaxColLen = 0 $aSplitLine = StringSplit($aRead[$i], '$') For $j = 1 To $aSplitLine[0] $aFields[$iLines][$j-1][0] = $aSplitLine[$j] $aFields[$iLines][$j-1][1] = StringLen($aSplitLine[$j]) If $aFields[$iLines][$j-1][1] > $aColLen[$j-1] Then $aColLen[$j-1] = $aFields[$iLines][$j-1][1] Next $iLines += 1 Next
- == let the user select the alignment for every column
$sAlign = InputBox('Column alignment', 'There are ' & $iMaxColumn & ' columns.' & @LF & '0 = left 1 = center 2 = right' & @LF & _
'Input alignment for all columns without delimiters.' & @LF & 'Let it empty, to align all left.')
If $sAlign = Then For $i = 1 To $iMaxColumn $sAlign &= '0' Next EndIf Global $aAlignment = StringSplit($sAlign, , 2)
- == output all to console
Global $sLineOut For $i = 0 To UBound($aFields) -1 $sLineOut = For $j = 0 To $iMaxColumn -1 If $aFields[$i][$j][0] = Then ContinueLoop $sLineOut &= _GetAligned($aFields[$i][$j][0], $aFields[$i][$j][1], $aAlignment[$j], $aColLen[$j]) Next ConsoleWrite(StringTrimRight($sLineOut, 1) & @LF) Next
Func _GetAligned($_sString, $_iLen, $_iAlign, $_iMaxLen) Local $sSpace = For $i = 1 To $_iMaxLen $sSpace &= ' ' Next Switch $_iAlign Case 0 Return $_sString & StringLeft($sSpace, $_iMaxLen - $_iLen +1) Case 1 Local $iLenLeft = Int(($_iMaxLen - $_iLen)/2) Local $iLenRight = $_iMaxLen - $iLenLeft - $_iLen Return StringLeft($sSpace, $iLenLeft) & $_sString & StringLeft($sSpace, $iLenRight) & ' ' Case 2 Return StringLeft($sSpace, $_iMaxLen - $_iLen) & $_sString & ' ' EndSwitch EndFunc ;==>_GetAligned </lang> Example output in Alignment: left - center - right - left - center - right - left - center - right - left - center - right
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each column are separated by at least one space. Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
--BugFix (talk) 13:02, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
AWK
<lang awk>BEGIN {
FS="$" lcounter = 1 maxfield = 0 # justification; pick one #justify = "left" justify = "center" #justify = "right"
} {
if ( NF > maxfield ) maxfield = NF;
for(i=1; i <= NF; i++) {
line[lcounter,i] = $i
if ( longest[i] == "" ) longest[i] = 0;
if ( length($i) > longest[i] ) longest[i] = length($i);
}
lcounter++
} END {
just = (justify == "left") ? "-" : ""
for(i=1; i <= NR; i++) {
for(j=1; j <= maxfield; j++) {
if ( justify != "center" ) {
template = "%" just longest[j] "s "
} else {
v = int((longest[j] - length(line[i,j]))/2) rt = "%" v+1 "s%%-%ds" template = sprintf(rt, "", longest[j] - v)
}
printf(template, line[i,j])
}
print ""
}
}</lang>
BBC BASIC
<lang bbcbasic> DATA 6
DATA "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$"
DATA "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program"
DATA "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$"
DATA "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space."
DATA "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$"
DATA "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
REM First find the maximum length of a 'word':
max% = 0
READ nlines%
FOR Line% = 1 TO nlines%
READ text$
REPEAT
word$ = FNword(text$, "$")
IF LEN(word$) > max% THEN max% = LEN(word$)
UNTIL word$ = ""
NEXT Line%
@% = max% : REM set column width
REM Now display the aligned text:
RESTORE
READ nlines%
FOR Line% = 1 TO nlines%
READ text$
REPEAT
word$ = FNword(text$, "$")
PRINT FNjustify(word$, max%, "left"),;
UNTIL word$ = ""
PRINT
NEXT Line%
END
DEF FNword(text$, delim$)
PRIVATE delim%
LOCAL previous%
IF delim% = 0 THEN
previous% = 1
ELSE
previous% = delim% + LEN(delim$)
ENDIF
delim% = INSTR(text$+delim$, delim$, previous%)
IF delim% = 0 THEN
= ""
ELSE
= MID$(text$, previous%, delim%-previous%) + " "
ENDIF
DEF FNjustify(word$, field%, mode$)
IF word$ = "" THEN = ""
CASE mode$ OF
WHEN "center": = STRING$((field%-LEN(word$)) DIV 2, " ") + word$
WHEN "right": = STRING$(field%-LEN(word$), " ") + word$
ENDCASE
= word$</lang>
C
See Column Aligner/C
C++
C#
Uses a delegate, which were added to the language in C# 2, to define left-, right-, or center-justified.
<lang csharp>using System; class ColumnAlignerProgram {
delegate string Justification(string s, int width);
static string[] AlignColumns(string[] lines, Justification justification)
{
const char Separator = '$';
// build input table and calculate columns count
string[][] table = new string[lines.Length][];
int columns = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++)
{
string[] row = lines[i].TrimEnd(Separator).Split(Separator);
if (columns < row.Length) columns = row.Length;
table[i] = row;
}
// create formatted table
string[][] formattedTable = new string[table.Length][];
for (int i = 0; i < formattedTable.Length; i++)
{
formattedTable[i] = new string[columns];
}
for (int j = 0; j < columns; j++)
{
// get max column width
int columnWidth = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < table.Length; i++)
{
if (j < table[i].Length && columnWidth < table[i][j].Length)
columnWidth = table[i][j].Length;
}
// justify column cells
for (int i = 0; i < formattedTable.Length; i++)
{
if (j < table[i].Length)
formattedTable[i][j] = justification(table[i][j], columnWidth);
else
formattedTable[i][j] = new String(' ', columnWidth);
}
}
// create result
string[] result = new string[formattedTable.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < result.Length; i++)
{
result[i] = String.Join(" ", formattedTable[i]);
}
return result;
}
static string JustifyLeft(string s, int width) { return s.PadRight(width); }
static string JustifyRight(string s, int width) { return s.PadLeft(width); }
static string JustifyCenter(string s, int width)
{
return s.PadLeft((width + s.Length) / 2).PadRight(width);
}
static void Main()
{
string[] 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.",
};
foreach (string line in AlignColumns(input, JustifyCenter))
{
Console.WriteLine(line);
}
}
}</lang>
Output (centered):
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.
Clojure
<lang Clojure> (ns rosettacode.align-columns
(:require [clojure.contrib.string :as str]))
(def data "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.")
(def table (map #(str/split #"\$" %) (str/split-lines data)))
(defn col-width [n table] (reduce max (map #(try (count (nth % n))
(catch Exception _ 0))
table)))
(defn spaces [n] (str/repeat n " ")) (defn add-padding
"if the string is too big turncate it, else return a string with padding"
[string width justification]
(if (>= (count string) width) (str/take width string)
(let [pad-len (int (- width (count string))) ;we don't want rationals
half-pad-len (int (/ pad-len 2))]
(case justification
:right (str (spaces pad-len) string)
:left (str string (spaces pad-len))
:center (str (spaces half-pad-len) string (spaces (- pad-len half-pad-len)))))))
(defn aligned-table
"get the width of each column, then generate a new table with propper padding for eath item"
([table justification]
(let [col-widths (map #(+ 2 (col-width % table)) (range (count(first table))))]
(map
(fn [row] (map #(add-padding %1 %2 justification) row col-widths))
table))))
(defn print-table
[table]
(do (println)
(print (str/join "" (flatten (interleave table (repeat "\n")))))))
(print-table (aligned-table table :center)) </lang>
CoffeeScript
<lang coffeescript> pad = (n) ->
s = while n > 0 s += ' ' n -= 1 s
align = (input, alignment = 'center') ->
tokenized_lines = (line.split '$' for line in input)
col_widths = {}
for line in tokenized_lines
for token, i in line
if !col_widths[i]? or token.length > col_widths[i]
col_widths[i] = token.length
padders =
center: (s, width) ->
excess = width - s.length
left = Math.floor excess / 2
right = excess - left
pad(left) + s + pad(right)
right: (s, width) ->
excess = width - s.length
pad(excess) + s
left: (s, width) ->
excess = width - s.length
s + pad(excess)
padder = padders[alignment]
for line in tokenized_lines
padded_tokens = (padder(token, col_widths[i]) for token, i in line)
console.log padded_tokens.join ' '
input = [
"Given$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."
]
for alignment in ['center', 'right', 'left']
console.log "\n----- #{alignment}"
align input, alignment
</lang> output <lang> > coffee align_columns.coffee
center
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.
right
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.
left
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. </lang>
Common Lisp
<lang lisp>(defun nonempty (seq)
(position-if (lambda (x) (declare (ignore x)) t) seq))
(defun split (delim seq)
"Splits seq on delim into a list of subsequences. Trailing empty
subsequences are removed."
(labels
((f (seq &aux (pos (position delim seq)))
(if pos
(cons
(subseq seq 0 pos)
(f (subseq seq (1+ pos))))
(list seq))))
(let* ((list (f seq))
(end (position-if #'nonempty list :from-end t)))
(subseq list 0 (1+ end)))))
(defun lengthen (list minlen filler-elem &aux (len (length list)))
"Destructively pads list with filler-elem up to minlen."
(if (< len minlen)
(nconc list (make-list (- minlen len) :initial-element filler-elem))
list))
(defun align-columns (text
&key (align :left)
&aux
(fmtmod (case align
(:left "@")
(:right ":")
(:center "@:")
(t (error "Invalid alignment."))))
(fields (mapcar (lambda (line) (split #\$ line))
(split #\Newline text)))
(mostcols (loop for l in fields
maximize (length l)))
widest)
(setf fields (mapcar (lambda (l) (lengthen l mostcols ""))
fields))
(setf widest (loop for col below (length (first fields))
collect (loop for row in fields
maximize (length (elt row col)))))
(format nil
(with-output-to-string (s)
(princ "~{~{" s)
(dolist (w widest)
(format s "~~~d~a<~~a~~>" (1+ w) fmtmod))
(princ "~}~%~}" s))
fields))</lang>
D
<lang d>import std.stdio, std.string, std.algorithm, std.range, std.typetuple;
void main() {
auto data =
"Given$a$txt$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."
.split.map!(r => r.chomp("$").split("$"));
int[int] maxWidths;
foreach (const line; data)
foreach (immutable i, const word; line)
maxWidths[i] = max(maxWidths.get(i, 0), word.length);
foreach (const just; TypeTuple!(leftJustify, center, rightJustify))
foreach (const line; data)
writefln("%-(%s %)", line.length.iota
.map!(i => just(line[i], maxWidths[i], ' ')));
}</lang>
- Output:
Given a txt 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.
Given a txt 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.
Given a txt 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.
Delphi
<lang Delphi> USES
StdCtrls, Classes, SysUtils, StrUtils, Contnrs;
procedure AlignByColumn(Output: TMemo; Align: TAlignment); const
TextToAlign = 'Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$'#$D#$A + 'are$delineated$by$a$single$dollar$character,$write$a$program'#$D#$A + 'that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$'#$D#$A + 'column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.'#$D#$A + 'Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$'#$D#$A + 'justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.';
var
TextLine, TempTString: TStringlist; TextLines: TObjectList; MaxLength, i, j: Byte; OutPutString, EmptyString, Item: String;
begin
TRY
MaxLength := 0;
TextLines := TObjectList.Create(True);
TextLine := TStringList.Create;
TextLine.text := TextToAlign;
for i:= 0 to TextLine.Count - 1 do
begin
TempTString := TStringlist.create;
TempTString.text :=AnsiReplaceStr(TextLine[i], '$', #$D#$A);
TextLines.Add(TempTString);
end;
for i := 0 to TextLines.Count - 1 do
for j := 0 to TStringList(TextLines.Items[i]).Count - 1 do
If Length(TStringList(TextLines.Items[i])[j]) > MaxLength then
MaxLength := Length(TStringList(TextLines.Items[i])[j]);
If MaxLength > 0 then
MaxLength := MaxLength + 2; // Add to empty spaces to it
for i := 0 to TextLines.Count - 1 do
begin
OutPutString := ;
for j := 0 to TStringList(TextLines.Items[i]).Count - 1 do
begin
EmptyString := StringOfChar(' ', MaxLength);
Item := TStringList(TextLines.Items[i])[j];
case Align of
taLeftJustify: Move(Item[1], EmptyString[2], Length(Item));
taRightJustify: Move(Item[1], EmptyString[MaxLength - Length(Item) + 1], Length(Item));
taCenter: Move(Item[1], EmptyString[(MaxLength - Length(Item) + 1) div 2 + 1], Length(Item));
end;
OutPutString := OutPutString + EmptyString;
end;
Output.Lines.Add(OutPutString);
end;
FINALLY
FreeAndNil(TextLine);
FreeAndNil(TextLines);
END;
end; </lang>
E
<lang e>pragma.enable("accumulator")
def left(width, word) {
return word + " " * (width - word.size())
}
def center(width, word) {
def leftCount := (width - word.size()) // 2 return " " * leftCount + word + " " * (width - word.size() - leftCount)
}
def right(width, word) {
return " " * (width - word.size()) + word
}
def alignColumns(align, text) {
def split := accum [] for line in text.split("\n") { _.with(line.split("$")) }
var widths := []
for line in split {
for i => word in line {
widths with= (i, widths.fetch(i, fn{0}).max(word.size()))
}
}
return accum "" for line in split {
_ + accum "" for i => word in line {
_ + align(widths[i] + 1, word)
} + "\n"
}
}</lang>
<lang e>? def text := "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."; null
? println(alignColumns(left, text)) 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.
? println(alignColumns(center, text))
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.
? println(alignColumns(right, text))
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.</lang>
Erlang
<lang Erlang> -module (align_columns).
-export([align_left/0, align_right/0, align_center/0]). -define (Lines,
["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."].
align_left()-> align_columns(left). align_right()-> align_columns(right). align_center()-> align_columns(centre). align_columns(Alignment) ->
Words = [ string:tokens(Line, "\$") || Line <- ?Lines ],
Words_length = lists:foldl( fun max_length/2, [], Words),
Result = [prepare_line(Words_line, Words_length, Alignment)
|| Words_line <- Words],
[ io:fwrite("~s~n", [lists:flatten(Line)]) || Line <- Result],
ok.
max_length(Words_of_a_line, Acc_maxlength) ->
Line_lengths = [length(W) || W <- Words_of_a_line ],
Max_nb_of_length = lists:max([length(Acc_maxlength), length(Line_lengths)]),
Line_lengths_prepared = adjust_list (Line_lengths, Max_nb_of_length, 0),
Acc_maxlength_prepared = adjust_list(Acc_maxlength, Max_nb_of_length, 0),
Two_lengths =lists:zip(Line_lengths_prepared, Acc_maxlength_prepared),
[ lists:max([A, B]) || {A, B} <- Two_lengths].
adjust_list(L, Desired_length, Elem) ->
L++lists:duplicate(Desired_length - length(L), Elem).
prepare_line(Words_line, Words_length, Alignment) ->
All_words = adjust_list(Words_line, length(Words_length), ""),
Zipped = lists:zip (All_words, Words_length),
[ apply(string, Alignment, [Word, Length + 1, $\s])
|| {Word, Length} <- Zipped].
=== Output
1> c(align_columns).
{ok,align_columns}
2> align_columns:align_center().
Given a text file of many lines where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each column are separated by at least one space. Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column. ok 3> align_columns:align_left(). Given a text file of many lines where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each column are separated by at least one space. Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left justified, right justified, or center justified within its column. ok 4> align_columns:align_right().
Given a text file of many lines where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
ok
</lang>
Euphoria
<lang euphoria>constant data = {
"Given$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$column."
}
function split(sequence s, integer c)
sequence out
integer first, delim
out = {}
first = 1
while first<=length(s) do
delim = find_from(c,s,first)
if delim = 0 then
delim = length(s)+1
end if
out = append(out,s[first..delim-1])
first = delim + 1
end while
return out
end function
function align(sequence s, integer width, integer alignment)
integer n
n = width - length(s)
if n <= 0 then
return s
elsif alignment < 0 then
return s & repeat(' ', n)
elsif alignment > 0 then
return repeat(' ', n) & s
else
return repeat(' ', floor(n/2)) & s & repeat(' ', floor(n/2+0.5))
end if
end function
integer maxlen sequence lines maxlen = 0 lines = repeat(0,length(data)) for i = 1 to length(data) do
lines[i] = split(data[i],'$')
for j = 1 to length(lines[i]) do
if length(lines[i][j]) > maxlen then
maxlen = length(lines[i][j])
end if
end for
end for
for a = -1 to 1 do
for i = 1 to length(lines) do
for j = 1 to length(lines[i]) do
puts(1, align(lines[i][j],maxlen,a) & ' ')
end for
puts(1,'\n')
end for
puts(1,'\n')
end for</lang>
Output:
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.
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.
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.
F#
<lang fsharp>open System open System.IO
let tableFromPath path =
let lines =
[ for line in File.ReadAllLines(path) -> (line.TrimEnd('$').Split('$')) ]
let width = List.fold (fun max (line : string[]) -> if max < line.Length then line.Length else max) 0 lines
List.map (fun (a : string[]) -> (List.init width (fun i -> if i < a.Length then a.[i] else ""))) lines
let rec trans m =
match m with | []::_ -> [] | _ -> (List.map List.head m) :: trans (List.map List.tail m)
let colWidth table =
List.map (fun col -> List.max (List.map String.length col)) (trans table)
let left = (fun (s : string) n -> s.PadRight(n)) let right = (fun (s : string) n -> s.PadLeft(n)) let center = (fun (s : string) n -> s.PadLeft((n + s.Length) / 2).PadRight(n))
[<EntryPoint>] let main argv =
let table = tableFromPath argv.[0]
let width = Array.ofList (colWidth table)
let format table align =
List.map (fun (row : string list) -> List.mapi (fun i s -> sprintf "%s" (align s width.[i])) row) table
|> List.iter (fun row -> printfn "%s" (String.Join(" ", Array.ofList row)))
for align in [ left; right; center ] do
format table align
printfn "%s" (new String('-', (Array.sum width) + width.Length - 1))
0</lang>
Output, when called with a file containing the sample 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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FBSL
Using a multiline string: <lang qbasic>#APPTYPE CONSOLE
DIM s = "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."
DIM lines[] = SPLIT(s, CRLF), tokens[], l, t, length, margin, justify = "center"
FOREACH l IN lines tokens = SPLIT(l, "$") FOREACH t IN tokens IF STRLEN(t) > length THEN length = INCR(STRLEN) NEXT NEXT
FOREACH l IN lines tokens = SPLIT(l, "$") FOREACH t IN tokens SELECT CASE justify CASE "left" PRINT t, SPACE(length - STRLEN(t)); CASE "center" margin = (length - STRLEN(t)) \ 2 PRINT SPACE(margin), t, SPACE(length - STRLEN - margin); CASE "right" PRINT SPACE(length - STRLEN(t)), t; END SELECT NEXT PRINT NEXT
PAUSE</lang> Output:
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.
Press any key to continue...
Factor
<lang factor>USING: fry io kernel math math.functions math.order sequences splitting strings ; IN: rosetta.column-aligner
CONSTANT: example-text "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."
- split-and-pad ( text -- lines )
"\n" split [ "$" split harvest ] map dup [ length ] [ max ] map-reduce '[ _ "" pad-tail ] map ;
- column-widths ( columns -- widths )
[ [ length ] [ max ] map-reduce ] map ;
SINGLETONS: +left+ +middle+ +right+ ;
GENERIC: align-string ( str n alignment -- str' )
M: +left+ align-string drop CHAR: space pad-tail ; M: +right+ align-string drop CHAR: space pad-head ;
M: +middle+ align-string
drop over length - 2 / [ floor CHAR: space <string> ] [ ceiling CHAR: space <string> ] bi surround ;
- align-columns ( columns alignment -- columns' )
[ dup column-widths ] dip '[
[ _ align-string ] curry map
] 2map ;
- print-aligned ( text alignment -- )
[ split-and-pad flip ] dip align-columns flip [ [ write " " write ] each nl ] each ;</lang>
example-text { +left+ +middle+ +right+ } [ print-aligned ] with each
Forth
<lang forth>\ align columns
- split ( addr len char -- addr len1 addr len-len1 )
>r 2dup r> scan 2swap 2 pick - ;
variable column
- for-each-line ( file len xt -- )
>r begin #lf split r@ execute 1 /string dup 0<= until 2drop rdrop ;
- for-each-field ( line len xt -- )
0 column ! >r begin '$ split r@ execute 1 column +! 1 /string dup 0<= until 2drop rdrop ;
0 value num-columns
- count-columns ( line len -- )
['] 2drop for-each-field num-columns column @ max to num-columns ;
- find-num-columns ( file len -- )
0 to num-columns ['] count-columns for-each-line ;
0 value column-widths
- column-width ( field len -- )
column-widths column @ + c@ max column-widths column @ + c! drop ;
- measure-widths ( line len -- )
['] column-width for-each-field ;
- find-column-widths ( file len -- )
num-columns allocate throw to column-widths column-widths num-columns erase ['] measure-widths for-each-line ;
\ type aligned, same naming convention as standard numeric U.R, .R
- type.l ( addr len width -- )
over - >r type r> spaces ;
- type.c ( addr len width -- )
over - dup 2/ spaces >r type r> 1+ 2/ spaces ;
- type.r ( addr len width -- )
over - spaces type ;
defer type.aligned
- print-field ( field len -- )
column-widths column @ + c@ type.aligned space ;
- print-line ( line len -- ) cr ['] print-field for-each-field ;
- print-fields ( file len -- ) ['] print-line for-each-line ;
\ read file
s" columns.txt" slurp-file ( file len )
\ scan once to determine num-columns 2dup find-num-columns
\ scan again to determine column-widths 2dup find-column-widths
\ print columns, once for each alignment type ' type.l is type.aligned 2dup print-fields cr ' type.c is type.aligned 2dup print-fields cr ' type.r is type.aligned 2dup print-fields cr
\ cleanup nip free throw column-widths free throw</lang>
Go
<lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "strings"
)
const text = `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.`
type formatter struct {
text [][]string width []int
}
func newFormatter(text string) *formatter {
var f formatter
for _, line := range strings.Split(text, "\n") {
words := strings.Split(line, "$")
for words[len(words)-1] == "" {
words = words[:len(words)-1]
}
f.text = append(f.text, words)
for i, word := range words {
if i == len(f.width) {
f.width = append(f.width, len(word))
} else if len(word) > f.width[i] {
f.width[i] = len(word)
}
}
}
return &f
}
const (
left = iota middle right
)
func (f formatter) print(j int) {
for _, line := range f.text {
for i, word := range line {
fmt.Printf("%-*s ", f.width[i], fmt.Sprintf("%*s",
len(word)+(f.width[i]-len(word))*j/2, word))
}
fmt.Println("")
}
fmt.Println("")
}
func main() {
f := newFormatter(text) f.print(left) f.print(middle) f.print(right)
}</lang>
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.
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.
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.
Groovy
Solution: <lang groovy>def alignColumns = { align, rawText ->
def lines = rawText.tokenize('\n')
def words = lines.collect { it.tokenize(/\$/) }
def maxLineWords = words.collect {it.size()}.max()
words = words.collect { line -> line + [] * (maxLineWords - line.size()) }
def columnWidths = words.transpose().collect{ column -> column.collect { it.size() }.max() }
def justify = [ Right : { width, string -> string.padLeft(width) },
Left : { width, string -> string.padRight(width) },
Center : { width, string -> string.center(width) } ]
def padAll = { pad, colWidths, lineWords -> [colWidths, lineWords].transpose().collect { pad(it) + ' ' } }
words.each { padAll(justify[align], columnWidths, it).each { print it }; println() }
}</lang>
Test Program: <lang groovy>def rawTextInput = 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.
['Left', 'Center', 'Right'].each { align ->
println "${align} Justified:"
alignColumns(align, rawTextInput)
println()
}</lang>
Output:
Left Justified:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Center Justified:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Right Justified:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Haskell
<lang haskell>import Data.List import Control.Monad import Control.Arrow
dat = "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$\n" ++
"are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program\n" ++
"that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$\n" ++
"column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.\n" ++
"Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$\n" ++
"justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.\n"
brkdwn = takeWhile (not.null) . unfoldr (Just . second (drop 1) . span ('$'/=))
format j ls = map (unwords. zipWith align colw) rows
where
rows = map brkdwn $ lines ls
colw = map (maximum. map length) . transpose $ rows
align cw w =
case j of
'c' -> (replicate l ' ') ++ w ++ (replicate r ' ')
'r' -> (replicate dl ' ') ++ w
'l' -> w ++ (replicate dl ' ')
where
dl = cw-length w
(l,r) = (dl `div` 2, dl-l)</lang>
output example:
*Main> mapM_ putStrLn $ format 'c' dat 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.
HicEst
A file opened with a Format option describing the column format(s) can be addressed like a standard in-memory array. In addition the DLG function (MatrixExplorer) allows this text/numeric file to be edited or visualized in many ways, but string columns are always left adjusted while numeric columns are right adjusted. Export is possible. <lang HicEst> CHARACTER Fnam = "\HicEst\Rosetta\Align columns.txt"
OPEN(FIle=Fnam, Format="12$", LENgth=rows)
! call the DLG function in MatrixExplorer mode:
DLG(Edit=Fnam, Format='12A10') ! left adjusted, 12 columns, 10 spaces each
! or the standard way:
CALL Align( "LLLLLLLLLLL ", Fnam, rows) ! left align CALL Align( "CCCCCCCCCCC ", Fnam, rows) ! center align CALL Align( "RRRRRRRRRRR ", Fnam, rows) ! right align
END
SUBROUTINE Align(picture, filename, rows)
CHARACTER picture, filename CHARACTER out*400, txt*20
W = LEN(picture)
DO i = 1, rows
out = " "
DO j = 0, 100
txt = filename(i, j+1, *9) ! on error branch to label 9
WRITE(Text=out(j*W+1 : ), Format=picture) txt
ENDDO
9 CONTINUE
WRITE() out
ENDDO
END</lang>
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.
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.
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.
Icon and Unicon
An argument of left, center, or right controls the column alignment. The default is left-alignment. <lang icon>global width
procedure main(args)
lines := []
width := 0
format := left
match("left"|"right"|"center", format <- !args)
every put(lines,prepare(!&input))
display(lines, proc(format,3))
end
procedure prepare(lines)
line := []
lines ? {
while (not pos(0)) & (field := tab(upto('$')|0)) do {
put(line, field)
width <:= *field
move(1)
}
}
return line
end
procedure display(lines, format)
width +:= 1
every line := !lines do {
every writes(format(!line, width))
write()
}
end</lang>
Sample run:
->align right <align.txt
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.
->
J
Solution <lang j>'LEFT CENTER RIGHT'=: i.3 NB. justification constants
NB.* alignCols v Format delimited text in justified columns NB. y: text to format NB. rows marked by last character in text NB. columns marked by $ NB. optional x: justification. Default is LEFT NB. result: text table alignCols=: verb define
LEFT alignCols y NB. default
global=. dyad def'9!:x y'each
oldbox=. 6 16 global ; NB. save settings
7 17 global (11#' ');,~x NB. apply new settings
result=. _2{:\ ": <;._2 @:,&'$';._2 y NB. parse & format text
7 17 global oldbox NB. restore settings
result
)</lang>
Example: <lang j> text=: noun define Given$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. )
alignCols text NB. default justification 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.
CENTER alignCols text NB. specify desired justification as left argument 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.</lang>
Java
<lang Java>import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Paths; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
/**
* Aligns fields into columns, separated by "|" */
public class ColumnAligner {
private List<String[]> words = new ArrayList<>(); private int columns = 0; private List<Integer> columnWidths = new ArrayList<>();
/**
* Initialize columns aligner from lines in a single string
*
* @param s
* lines in a single string. Empty string does form a column.
*/
public ColumnAligner(String s) {
String[] lines = s.split("\\n");
for (String line : lines) {
processInputLine(line);
}
}
/**
* Initialize columns aligner from lines in a list of strings
*
* @param lines
* lines in a single string. Empty string does form a column.
*/
public ColumnAligner(List<String> lines) {
for (String line : lines) {
processInputLine(line);
}
}
private void processInputLine(String line) {
String[] lineWords = line.split("\\$");
words.add(lineWords);
columns = Math.max(columns, lineWords.length);
for (int i = 0; i < lineWords.length; i++) {
String word = lineWords[i];
if (i >= columnWidths.size()) {
columnWidths.add(word.length());
} else {
columnWidths.set(i, Math.max(columnWidths.get(i), word.length()));
}
}
}
interface AlignFunction {
String align(String s, int length);
}
/**
* Left-align all columns
*
* @return Lines, terminated by "\n" of columns, separated by "|"
*/
public String alignLeft() {
return align(new AlignFunction() {
@Override
public String align(String s, int length) {
return StringUtils.rightPad(s, length);
}
});
}
/**
* Right-align all columns
*
* @return Lines, terminated by "\n" of columns, separated by "|"
*/
public String alignRight() {
return align(new AlignFunction() {
@Override
public String align(String s, int length) {
return StringUtils.leftPad(s, length);
}
});
}
/**
* Center-align all columns
*
* @return Lines, terminated by "\n" of columns, separated by "|"
*/
public String alignCenter() {
return align(new AlignFunction() {
@Override
public String align(String s, int length) {
return StringUtils.center(s, length);
}
});
}
private String align(AlignFunction a) {
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for (String[] lineWords : words) {
for (int i = 0; i < lineWords.length; i++) {
String word = lineWords[i];
if (i == 0) {
result.append("|");
}
result.append(a.align(word, columnWidths.get(i)) + "|");
}
result.append("\n");
}
return result.toString();
}
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
if (args.length < 1) {
System.out.println("Usage: ColumnAligner file [left|right|center]");
return;
}
String filePath = args[0];
String alignment = "left";
if (args.length >= 2) {
alignment = args[1];
}
ColumnAligner ca = new ColumnAligner(Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(filePath), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
switch (alignment) {
case "left":
System.out.print(ca.alignLeft());
break;
case "right":
System.out.print(ca.alignRight());
break;
case "center":
System.out.print(ca.alignCenter());
break;
default:
System.err.println(String.format("Error! Unknown alignment: '%s'", alignment));
break;
}
}
}</lang>
JavaScript
<lang JavaScript> var justification="center", 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."], x,y,cols,max,cols=0,diff,left,right
String.prototype.repeat=function(n){return new Array(1 + parseInt(n)).join(this);}
for(x=0;x<input.length;x++) {
input[x]=input[x].split("$");
if(input[x].length>cols) cols=input[x].length;
} for(x=0;x<cols;x++) {
max=0;
for(y=0;y<input.length;y++) if(input[y][x]&&max<input[y][x].length) max=input[y][x].length;
for(y=0;y<input.length;y++)
if(input[y][x]) {
diff=(max-input[y][x].length)/2;
left=" ".repeat(Math.floor(diff));
right=" ".repeat(Math.ceil(diff));
if(justification=="left") {right+=left;left=""}
if(justification=="right") {left+=right;right=""}
input[y][x]=left+input[y][x]+right;
}
} for(x=0;x<input.length;x++) input[x]=input[x].join(" "); input=input.join("\n"); document.write(input);</lang>
jq
The key to the following implementation is the filter named "transpose", which is defined to work on a possibly jagged matrix. <lang jq># transpose a possibly jagged matrix def transpose:
if . == [] then []
else (.[1:] | transpose) as $t
| .[0] as $row
| reduce range(0; [($t|length), (.[0]|length)] | max) as $i
([]; . + [ [ $row[$i] ] + $t[$i] ])
end;
- left/right/center justification of strings:
def ljust(width): . + " " * (width - length);
def rjust(width): " " * (width - length) + .;
def center(width):
(width - length) as $pad | if $pad <= 0 then . else ($pad / 2 | floor) as $half | $half * " " + . + ($pad-$half) * " " end ;
- input: a single string, which includes newlines to separate lines, and $ to separate phrases;
- method must be "left" "right" or anything else for central justification.
def format(method):
def justify(width): if method == "left" then ljust(width) elif method == "right" then rjust(width) else center(width) end;
# max_widths: input: an array of strings, each with "$" as phrase-separator;
# return the appropriate column-wise maximum lengths
def max_widths:
map(split("$") | map(length))
| transpose | map(max) ;
split("\n") as $input
| $input
| (max_widths | map(.+1)) as $widths
| map( split("$") | . as $line | reduce range(0; length) as $i
(""; . + ($line[$i]|justify($widths[$i])) ))
| join("\n")
- </lang>
Example: <lang jq>"Center:", format("center"), "", "Left:", format("left"), "", "Right:", format("right")</lang>
- Output:
Center:
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.
Left: 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.
Right:
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.
</lang>Julia
<lang julia>txt = """Given\$a\$txt\$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."""
- left/right/center justification of strings:
ljust(s, width) = s * " "^max(0, width - length(s)) rjust(s, width) = " "^max(0, width - length(s)) * s function center(s, width)
pad = width - length(s) if pad <= 0 return s else pad2 = div(pad, 2) return " "^pad2 * s * " "^(pad - pad2) end
end
parts = [split(rstrip(line, '$'), '$') for line in split(txt, '\n')]
max_widths = zeros(Int, maximum(length, parts)) for line in parts
for (i, word) in enumerate(line) max_widths[i] = max(max_widths[i], length(word)) end
end max_widths += 1 # separate cols by at least one space
for (label, justify) in (("Left", ljust), ("Right",rjust), ("Center",center))
println(label, " column-aligned output:")
for line in parts
for (j, word) in enumerate(line)
print(justify(word, max_widths[j]))
end
println()
end
println("-"^sum(max_widths))
end</lang> Output:
Left column-aligned output:
Given a txt 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Right column-aligned output:
Given a txt 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Center column-aligned output:
Given a txt 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lasso
<lang Lasso>#!/usr/bin/lasso9
local(text = "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. ")
define go_left(text::array, width::integer) => {
local(output = string)
with row in #text do {
with word in #row do {
#output -> append(string(#word) -> padtrailing(#width + 1)&)
}
#output -> append('\n')
}
return #output
}
define go_right(text::array, width::integer) => { local(output = string) with row in #text do { with word in #row do { #output -> append(string(#word) -> padleading(#width + 1)&) } #output -> append('\n') } return #output }
define go_center(text::array, width::integer) => { local(output = string) with row in #text do { with word in #row do { local( padlength = (#width + 1 - #word -> size), padleft = (' ' * (#padlength / 2)), padright = (' ' * (#padlength - #padleft -> size)) ) #output -> append(#padleft + string(#word) + #padright) } #output -> append('\n') } return #output }
define prepcols(text::string) => { local( result = array, maxwidth = 0 ) with row in #text -> split('\n') do { #row -> removetrailing('$') #result -> insert(#row -> split('$')) } with word in delve(#result) do { #word -> size > #maxwidth ? #maxwidth = #word -> size } stdoutnl('Left aligned result: \n' + go_left(#result, #maxwidth)) stdoutnl('Right aligned result: \n' + go_right(#result, #maxwidth)) stdoutnl('Centered result: \n' + go_center(#result, #maxwidth)) }
prepcols(#text)</lang>
Output:
Left aligned result:
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.
Right aligned result:
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.
Centered result:
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.
Liberty BASIC
<lang lb>mainwin 140 32
CRLF$ =chr$( 13) maxlen =0
read y
Dim txt$( y)
For i =1 To y
Read i$
print i$
if right$( i$, 1) <>"$" then i$ =i$ +"$"
txt$( i) =i$
x =max( CountDollars( txt$( i)), x)
Next i
print x
Dim matrix$( x, y)
Print CRLF$; " ---- Left ----"
For yy =1 To y
For xx =1 To x
matrix$( xx, yy) =word$( txt$( yy), xx, "$")
print matrix$( xx, yy), "|";
maxlen =max( maxlen, Len( matrix$( xx, yy)))
Next xx
print ""
Next yy
Print CRLF$; " ---- Right ----"
For yy =1 To y
For xx =1 To x
Print right$( " " +matrix$( xx, yy), maxlen +1); "|";
' will truncate column words longer than 20. Change to use maxlen....
Next xx
Print ""
Next yy
Print CRLF$ +" ---- Center ----"
For yy =1 to y
For xx =1 to x
wordLen =Len( matrix$( xx, yy))
padNeeded =maxlen -wordLen +4
LeftSpaces =padNeeded /2
if LeftSpaces =int( LeftSpaces) then
RightSpaces =LeftSpaces
else
RightSpaces =LeftSpaces -1
end if
Print space$( LeftSpaces); matrix$( xx, yy); space$( RightSpaces); "|";
Next xx
Print ""
Next yy
wait
Data 6
Data "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" Data "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" Data "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" Data "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." Data "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" Data "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
function CountDollars( src$)
c =0
for j =1 to len( src$)
if mid$( src$, j, 1) ="$" then c =c +1
next j
CountDollars =c
end function
end</lang>
Lua
<lang lua> local tWord = {} -- word table local tColLen = {} -- maximum word length in a column local rowCount = 0 -- row counter --store maximum column lengths at 'tColLen'; save words into 'tWord' table local function readInput(pStr)
for line in pStr:gmatch("([^\n]+)[\n]-") do -- read until '\n' character
rowCount = rowCount + 1
tWord[rowCount] = {} -- create new row
local colCount = 0
for word in line:gmatch("[^$]+") do -- read non '$' character
colCount = colCount + 1
tColLen[colCount] = math.max((tColLen[colCount] or 0), #word) -- store column length
tWord[rowCount][colCount] = word -- store words
end--for word
end--for line
end--readInput --repeat space to align the words in the same column local align = {
["left"] = function (pWord, pColLen)
local n = (pColLen or 0) - #pWord + 1
return pWord .. (" "):rep(n)
end;--["left"]
["right"] = function (pWord, pColLen)
local n = (pColLen or 0) - #pWord + 1
return (" "):rep(n) .. pWord
end;--["right"]
["center"] = function (pWord, pColLen)
local n = (pColLen or 0) - #pWord + 1
local n1 = math.floor(n/2)
return (" "):rep(n1) .. pWord .. (" "):rep(n-n1)
end;--["center"]
} --word table padder local function padWordTable(pAlignment)
local alignFunc = align[pAlignment] -- selecting the spacer function
for rowCount, tRow in ipairs(tWord) do
for colCount, word in ipairs(tRow) do
tRow[colCount] = alignFunc(word, tColLen[colCount]) -- save the padded words into the word table
end--for colCount, word
end--for rowCount, tRow
end--padWordTable --main interface
[]
function alignColumn(pStr, pAlignment, pFileName)
[]
readInput(pStr) -- store column lengths and words
padWordTable(pAlignment or "left") -- pad the stored words
local output = ""
for rowCount, tRow in ipairs(tWord) do
local line = table.concat(tRow) -- concatenate words in one row
print(line) -- print the line
output = output .. line .. "\n" -- concatenate the line for output, add line break
end--for rowCount, tRow
if (type(pFileName) == "string") then
local file = io.open(pFileName, "w+")
file:write(output) -- write output to file
file:close()
end--if type(pFileName)
return output
end--alignColumn </lang>
Usage Example:
<lang lua> input = [[Given$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.]]
outputLeft = alignColumn(input)
outputRight = alignColumn(input, "right")
alignColumn(input, "center", "output.txt")
</lang>
Maple
Assign the sample data. <lang Maple> txt := "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$\n" "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program\n" "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$\n" "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.\n" "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$\n" "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.\n": </lang> The following procedure solves the problem. It takes the string to be operated on as input, and an optional alignment parameter, which defaults to centred alignment. The aligned text is returned, as a string, which can then be printed. <lang Maple> AlignColumns := proc( txt, align :: { "left", "right", "centre" } := "centre" ) uses StringTools;
# Get a list of lists of fields local A := map( Split, Split( txt ), "$" );
# Calculate the column width local width := 1 + max( map( L -> max( map( length, L ) ), A ) );
# Add spacing according to the requested type of alignment if align = "left" then local J := map( line -> map( PadRight, line, width ), A ) elif align = "right" then J := map( line -> map( PadLeft, line, width ), A ) else J := map( line -> map( Center, line, width ), A ) end if;
# Join up the fields in each line. J := map( cat@op, J );
# Re-assemble the lines into a single string. Join( J, "\n" ) end proc: </lang> For the sample text, we get the following results. <lang Maple> > printf( "%s\n", AlignColumns( txt ) ):
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.
> printf( "%s\n", AlignColumns( txt, "center" ) ): # same as above
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.
> printf( "%s\n", AlignColumns( txt, "left" ) ): 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. > printf( "%s\n", AlignColumns( txt, "right" ) ):
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.
</lang> Alternatively, this could be printed to a file (using fprintf instead of printf).
Mathematica
<lang Mathematica>TableForm[StringSplit[StringSplit[a,"\n"],"$"],TableAlignments -> Center]</lang>
Output with example text :
ML/I
In this example, ML/I reads its macros first, then switches input to the file containing the data to be formatted. Output is to 'standard output' or similar. Note the presetting of P102 to indicate the alignment required.
<lang ML/I>MCSKIP "WITH" NL "" Align columns - assumes macros on input stream 1, data on stream 2 MCPVAR 102 "" Set P102 to alignment required: "" 1 = centre "" 2 = left "" 3 = right MCSET P102 = 1 MCSKIP MT,<> MCINS %. MCSKIP SL WITH * "" Assume no more than 100 columns - P101 used for max number of fields "" Set P variables 1-101 to 0 MCDEF ZEROPS WITHS NL AS <MCSET T1=1 %L1.MCSET PT1=0 MCSET T1=T1+1 MCGO L1 UNLESS T1 EN 102 > ZEROPS "" First pass - macro to accumulate max columns, and max widths MCDEF SL N1 OPT $ N1 OR $ WITHS NL OR SPACE WITHS NL OR NL ALL AS <MCGO L3 UNLESS T1 GR P101 MCSET P101=T1 %L3.MCSET T2=1 %L1.MCGO L0 IF T2 GR T1 MCSET T3=MCLENG(%WBT2.) MCGO L2 UNLESS T3 GR PT2 MCSET PT2=T3 %L2.MCSET T2=T2+1 MCGO L1 > MCSET S1=1
- MCSET S10=2
- MCSET S1=0
MCSET S4=1 ""MCNOTE Max field is %P101. ""MCDEF REP NL AS <MCSET T1=1 ""%L1.%PT1. MCSET T1=T1+1 ""MCGO L1 UNLESS T1 GR P101 ""> ""REP MCDEF SL N1 OPT $ N1 OR $ WITHS NL OR SPACE WITHS NL OR NL ALL AS <MCSET T2=1 %L5.MCGO L6 IF T2 GR T1 MCGO LP102 %L1.MCSET T3=%%%PT2.-MCLENG(%WBT2.)./2. MCGO L7 IF T3 EN 0 MCSUB(< >,1,T3)%L7.%WBT2."" MCSUB(< >,1,PT2-T3-MCLENG(%WBT2.)+1)MCGO L4 %L2.MCSUB(%WBT2.< >,1,PT2)MCGO L4 %L3.MCSUB(< >%WBT2.,1-PT2,0)"" %L4. MCSET T2=T2+1 MCGO L5 %L6. > MCSET S1=1
- MCSET S10=102</lang>
MUMPS
<lang MUMPS>columns(how) ; how = "Left", "Center" or "Right" New col,half,ii,max,spaces,word Set ii=0 Set ii=ii+1,line(ii)="Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" Set ii=ii+1,line(ii)="are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" Set ii=ii+1,line(ii)="that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" Set ii=ii+1,line(ii)="column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." Set ii=ii+1,line(ii)="Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" Set ii=ii+1,line(ii)="justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column." Set ii="" For Set ii=$Order(line(ii)) Quit:ii="" Do . For col=1:1:$Length(line(ii),"$") Do . . Set max=$Length($Piece(line(ii),"$",col)) . . Set:max>$Get(max(col)) max(col)=max . . Quit . Quit Set ii="" For Set ii=$Order(line(ii)) Quit:ii="" Do . Write ! For col=1:1:$Length(line(ii),"$") Do:$Get(max(col)) . . Set word=$Piece(line(ii),"$",col) . . Set spaces=$Justify("",max(col)-$Length(word)) . . If how="Left" Write word,spaces," " Quit . . If how="Right" Write spaces,word," " Quit . . Set half=$Length(spaces)\2 . . Write $Extract(spaces,1,half),word,$Extract(spaces,half+1,$Length(spaces))," " . . Quit . Quit Write ! Quit Do columns("Left")
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each column are separated by at least one space. Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Do columns("Center")
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each column are separated by at least one space. Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Do columns("Right")
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.</lang>
Nimrod
<lang nimrod>import strutils, sequtils, strfmt
let textinfile = """Given$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."""
var words = textinfile.splitLines.mapIt(seq[string], it.split '$') var maxs = newSeq[int](max words.mapIt(int, it.len))
for l in words:
for j,w in l: maxs[j] = max(maxs[j], w.len+1)
for i, align in ["<",">","^"]:
echo(["Left", "Right", "Center"][i], " column-aligned output:")
for l in words:
for j,w in l:
stdout.write w.format align & $maxs[j]
stdout.write "\n"</lang>
Output:
Left column-aligned output:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Right column-aligned output:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Center column-aligned output:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
OCaml
<lang ocaml>#load "str.cma" open Str
let input = "\ Given$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 "$")) lines in
let fields_l = List.map Array.of_list fields_l in
let n = (* number of columns *)
List.fold_left
(fun n fields -> max n (Array.length fields))
0 fields_l
in
let pads = Array.make n 0 in
List.iter (
(* calculate the max padding for each column *)
Array.iteri
(fun i word -> pads.(i) <- max pads.(i) (String.length word))
) fields_l;
let print f =
List.iter (fun fields ->
Array.iteri (fun i word ->
f word (pads.(i) - (String.length word))
) fields;
print_newline()
) fields_l;
in
(* left column-aligned output *) print (fun word pad -> let spaces = String.make pad ' ' in Printf.printf "%s%s " word spaces);
(* right column-aligned output *) print (fun word pad -> let spaces = String.make pad ' ' in Printf.printf "%s%s " spaces word);
(* center column-aligned output *) print (fun word pad -> let pad1 = pad / 2 in let pad2 = pad - pad1 in let sp1 = String.make pad1 ' ' in let sp2 = String.make pad2 ' ' in Printf.printf "%s%s%s " sp1 word sp2);
- </lang>
ooRexx
<lang ooRexx> text = .array~of("Given$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$column.")
columns = 0 parsedText = .array~new -- split each line of text into words and figure out how many columns we need loop line over text
parsedLine = line~makearray("$")
parsedText~append(parsedLine)
columns = max(columns, parsedLine~items)
end
-- now figure out how wide we need to make each column columnWidths = .array~new(columns) linelength = 0 loop i = 1 to columns
width = 0
loop line over parsedText
word = line[i]
if word \= .nil then width = max(width, word~length)
end
columnWidths[i] = width
-- keep track of the total width, including space for a separator
linelength += width + 1
end
say "align left:" say out = .mutableBuffer~new(linelength) loop line over parsedText
-- mutable buffers are more efficient than repeated string concats
-- reset the working buffer to zero
out~setbuffersize(0)
loop col = 1 to line~items
word = line[col]
if word == .nil then word =
out~append(word~left(columnwidths[col] + 1))
end
say out~string
end say say "align right:" say
loop line over parsedText
-- mutable buffers are more efficient than repeated string concats
-- reset the working buffer to zero
out~setbuffersize(0)
loop col = 1 to line~items
word = line[col]
if word == .nil then word =
out~append(word~right(columnwidths[col] + 1))
end
say out~string
end say say "align center:" say
loop line over parsedText
-- mutable buffers are more efficient than repeated string concats
-- reset the working buffer to zero
out~setbuffersize(0)
loop col = 1 to line~items
word = line[col]
if word == .nil then word =
out~append(word~center(columnwidths[col] + 1))
end
say out~string
end </lang>
align left:
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.
align right:
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.
align center:
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.
OpenEdge/Progress
<lang progress>FUNCTION alignColumns RETURNS CHAR (
i_c AS CHAR, i_calign AS CHAR
):
DEF VAR ipass AS INT. DEF VAR iline AS INT. DEF VAR icol AS INT. DEF VAR iwidth AS INT EXTENT. DEF VAR cword AS CHAR. DEF VAR cspace AS CHAR. DEF VAR cresult AS CHAR.
EXTENT( iwidth ) = NUM-ENTRIES( ENTRY( 1, i_c, "~n" ), "$" ).
DO ipass = 0 TO 1:
DO iline = 1 TO NUM-ENTRIES( i_c, "~n" ):
DO icol = 1 TO NUM-ENTRIES( ENTRY( iline, i_c, "~n" ), "$" ):
cword = ENTRY( icol, ENTRY( iline, i_c, "~n" ), "$" ).
IF ipass = 0 THEN
iwidth = MAXIMUM( LENGTH( cword ), iwidth[ icol ] ).
ELSE DO:
cspace = FILL( " ", iwidth[ icol ] - LENGTH( cword ) ).
CASE i_calign:
WHEN "left" THEN cresult = cresult + cword + cspace.
WHEN "right" THEN cresult = cresult + cspace + cword.
WHEN "center" THEN DO:
cword = FILL( " ", INTEGER( LENGTH( cspace ) / 2 ) ) + cword.
cresult = cresult + cword + FILL( " ", iwidth[icol] - LENGTH( cword ) ).
END.
END CASE. /* i_calign */
cresult = cresult + " ".
END.
END. /* DO icol = 1 TO ... */
IF ipass = 1 THEN
cresult = cresult + "~n".
END. /* DO iline = 1 TO ... */
END. /* DO ipass = 0 TO 1 */
RETURN cresult.
END FUNCTION.
DEF VAR cc AS CHAR.
cc = SUBSTITUTE(
"&1~n&2~n&3~n&4~n&5~n&6",
"Given$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$column."
).
MESSAGE
alignColumns( cc, "left" ) SKIP alignColumns( cc, "right" ) SKIP alignColumns( cc, "center" )
VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX.</lang>
Output:
---------------------------
Message
---------------------------
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------
OxygenBasic
'================
Class AlignedText
'================
indexbase 1
string buf, bufo, cr, tab, jus
sys Cols, Rows, ColWidth[200], TotWidth, ColPad
method SetText(string s)
cr=chr(13)+chr(10)
tab=chr(9)
jus=string 200,"L"
buf=s
measure
end method
method measure()
sys a, b, wa, wb, cm, c, cw
a=1 : b=1
Cols=0 : Rows=0 : ColPad=3
do
wb=b
a=instr b,buf,cr
if a=0 then exit do
cm=0
c++
do
wa=instr wb,buf,"$"
if wa=0 or wa>a then exit do
cm++
if cm>cols then cols=cm
cw=wa-wb
if cw > ColWidth[cm] then ColWidth[cm]=cw
wb=wa+1
end do
b=a+len cr
end do
rows=c
'
c=0
for i=1 to cols
ColWidth[ i ]+=ColPad
c+=ColWidth[ i ]
next
TotWidth=c+len cr
'print ShowMetrics
end method
method ShowMetrics() as string
pr="METRICS:" cr cr
pr+=rows tab cols tab totwidth cr cr
pr+="column" tab "spacing" cr
for i=1 to cols
pr+=i tab ColWidth[ i ] cr
next
return pr
end method
method justify(string j)
mid jus,1,j
end method
method layout() as string
sys a, b, wa, wb, wl, cm, lpos, cpos
bufo=space Rows*TotWidth
a=1 : b=1
do
wb=b
a=instr(b,buf,cr)
if a=0 then exit do
cm=0
cpos=1
do
wa=instr(wb,buf,"$")
if wa=0 or wa>a then exit do
'
cm++
'
'JUSTIFICATION
'
wl=wa-wb
p=lpos+cpos 'default "L" LEFT ALIGN
'
select case asc(jus,cm)
case "R" : p=lpos+cpos+ColWidth[cm]-wl-Colpad
case "C" : p=lpos+cpos+( ColWidth[cm]-wl-Colpad )*.5
end select
'
mid bufo,p, mid buf,wb,wl
cpos+=colwidth[cm]
wb=wa+1
end do
b=a+len cr
lpos+=TotWidth
if lpos<len(bufo) then mid bufo,lpos-1,cr
end do
return bufo
end method
end class
'#recordof AlignedText
'====
'TEST
'====
AlignedText tt
tt.SetText quote
"""
Given$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.
"""
'print tt.ShowMetrics
tt.justify "LLLLCCCRRRRR"
putfile "t.txt", tt.layout
Oz
<lang oz>declare
%% Lines: list of strings
%% Alignment: function like fun {Left Txt ExtraSpace} ... end
%% Returns: list of aligned (virtual) strings
fun {Align Lines Alignment}
ParsedLines = {Map Lines ParseLine}
NumColumns = {Maximum {Map ParsedLines Record.width}}
%% maps column index to column width:
WidthOfColumn = {Record.map {TupleRange NumColumns}
fun {$ ColumnIndex}
fun {LengthOfThisColumn ParsedLine}
{Length {CondSelect ParsedLine ColumnIndex nil}}
end
in
{Maximum {Map ParsedLines LengthOfThisColumn}}
end}
in
{Map ParsedLines
fun {$ Columns}
{Record.mapInd Columns
fun {$ ColumnIndex ColumnText}
Extra = WidthOfColumn.ColumnIndex - {Length ColumnText}
in
{Alignment ColumnText Extra}#" "
end}
end}
end
%% A parsed line is a tuple of columns.
%% "a$b$c" -> '#'(1:"a" 2:"b" 3:"c")
fun {ParseLine Line}
{List.toTuple '#' {String.tokens Line &$}}
end
%% possible alignments:
fun {Left Txt Extra}
Txt#{Spaces Extra}
end
fun {Right Txt Extra}
{Spaces Extra}#Txt
end
fun {Center Txt Extra}
Half = Extra div 2
in
{Spaces Half}#Txt#{Spaces Half + Extra mod 2}
end
%% helpers:
%% 3 -> unit(1 2 3)
fun {TupleRange Max}
{List.toTuple unit {List.number 1 Max 1}}
end
fun {Maximum X|Xr}
{FoldL Xr Value.max X}
end
fun {Spaces N}
case N of 0 then nil
else & |{Spaces N-1}
end
end
Lines = ["Given$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$column."]
in
{ForAll {Align Lines Left} System.showInfo}</lang>
Pascal
See Delphi
Perl
<lang Perl>#/usr/bin/perl -w use strict ;
die "Call : perl columnaligner.pl <inputfile> <printorientation>!\n" unless
@ARGV == 2 ; #$ARGV[ 0 ] contains example file , $ARGV[1] any of 'left' , 'right' or 'center'
die "last argument must be one of center, left or right!\n" unless
$ARGV[ 1 ] =~ /center|left|right/ ;
sub printLines( $$$ ) ; open INFILE , "<" , "$ARGV[ 0 ]" or die "Can't open $ARGV[ 0 ]!\n" ; my @lines = <INFILE> ; close INFILE ; chomp @lines ; my @fieldwidths = map length, split /\$/ , $lines[ 0 ] ; foreach my $i ( 1..$#lines ) {
my @words = split /\$/ , $lines[ $i ] ;
foreach my $j ( 0..$#words ) {
if ( $j <= $#fieldwidths ) {
if ( length $words[ $j ] > $fieldwidths[ $j ] ) {
$fieldwidths[ $j ] = length $words[ $j ] ;
}
}
else {
push @fieldwidths, length $words[ $j ] ;
}
}
} printLine( $_ , $ARGV[ 1 ] , \@fieldwidths ) foreach @lines ;
- ####
sub printLine {
my $line = shift ;
my $orientation = shift ;
my $widthref = shift ;
my @words = split /\$/, $line ;
foreach my $k ( 0..$#words ) {
my $printwidth = $widthref->[ $k ] + 1 ;
if ( $orientation eq 'center' ) {
$printwidth++ ;
}
if ( $orientation eq 'left' ) {
print $words[ $k ] ;
print " " x ( $printwidth - length $words[ $k ] ) ;
}
elsif ( $orientation eq 'right' ) {
print " " x ( $printwidth - length $words[ $k ] ) ;
print $words[ $k ] ;
}
elsif ( $orientation eq 'center' ) {
my $left = int( ( $printwidth - length $words[ $k ] ) / 2 ) ;
my $right = $printwidth - length( $words[ $k ] ) - $left ;
print " " x $left ;
print $words[ $k ] ;
print " " x $right ;
}
}
print "\n" ;
}</lang> a shorter solution <lang perl>use List::Util qw(max);
sub columns {
my @lines = map [split /\$/] => split /\n/ => shift;
my $pos = {qw/left 0 center 1 right 2/}->{+shift};
for my $col (0 .. max map {$#$_} @lines) {
my $max = max my @widths = map {length $_->[$col]} @lines;
for my $row (0 .. $#lines) {
my @pad = map {' ' x $_, ' ' x ($_ + 0.5)} ($max - $widths[$row]) / 2;
for ($lines[$row][$col])
{$_ = join => @pad[0 .. $pos-1], $_, @pad[$pos .. $#pad]}
}
}
join => map {"@$_\n"} @lines
}
print columns <<'END', $_ for qw(left right center); 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. END</lang>
Perl 6
<lang Perl 6>###to be called with perl6 columnaligner.pl <orientation>(left, center , right )
- with left as default
my $fh = open "example.txt" , :r or die "Can't read text file!\n" ; my @filelines = $fh.lines ; close $fh ; my @maxcolwidths ; #array of the longest words per column
- fill the array with values#####################
for @filelines -> $line {
my @words = $line.split( "\$" ) ;
for 0..@words.elems - 1 -> $i {
if @maxcolwidths[ $i ] {
if @words[ $i ].chars > @maxcolwidths[$i] { @maxcolwidths[ $i ] = @words[ $i ].chars ; }
}
else {
@maxcolwidths.push( @words[ $i ].chars ) ;
} }
} my $justification = @*ARGS[ 0 ] || "left" ;
- print lines , $gap holds the number of spaces, 1 to be added
- to allow for space preceding or following longest word
for @filelines -> $line {
my @words = $line.split( "\$" ) ;
for 0 ..^ @words -> $i {
my $gap = @maxcolwidths[$i] - @words[$i].chars + 1 ;
if $justification eq "left" {
print @words[ $i ] ~ " " x $gap ;
} elsif $justification eq "right" {
print " " x $gap ~ @words[$i] ;
} elsif $justification eq "center" {
$gap = ( @maxcolwidths[ $i ] + 2 - @words[$i].chars ) div 2 ; print " " x $gap ~ @words[$i] ~ " " x $gap ;
} } say ; #for the newline
}</lang>
Or another way. To be called exactly as the first script. <lang Perl 6>my @lines = slurp("example.txt").lines; my @widths;
for @lines { for .split('$').kv { @widths[$^key] max= $^word.chars; } } for @lines { say .split('$').kv.map: { (align @widths[$^key], $^word) ~ " "; } }
sub align($column_width, $word, $aligment = @*ARGS[0]) {
my $lr = $column_width - $word.chars;
my $c = $lr / 2;
given ($aligment) {
when "center" { " " x $c.ceiling ~ $word ~ " " x $c.floor }
when "right" { " " x $lr ~ $word }
default { $word ~ " " x $lr }
}
}</lang>
PHP
<lang php><?php $j2justtype = array('L' => STR_PAD_RIGHT,
'R' => STR_PAD_LEFT,
'C' => STR_PAD_BOTH);
/**
Justify columns of textual tabular input where the record separator is the newline and the field separator is a 'dollar' character. justification can be L, R, or C; (Left, Right, or Centered). Return the justified output as a string
- /
function aligner($str, $justification = 'L') {
global $j2justtype; assert(array_key_exists($justification, $j2justtype)); $justtype = $j2justtype[$justification];
$fieldsbyrow = array();
foreach (explode("\n", $str) as $line)
$fieldsbyrow[] = explode('$', $line);
$maxfields = max(array_map('count', $fieldsbyrow));
foreach (range(0, $maxfields-1) as $col) {
$maxwidth = 0;
foreach ($fieldsbyrow as $fields)
$maxwidth = max($maxwidth, strlen($fields[$col]));
foreach ($fieldsbyrow as &$fields)
$fields[$col] = str_pad($fields[$col], $maxwidth, ' ', $justtype);
unset($fields); // see http://bugs.php.net/29992
}
$result = ;
foreach ($fieldsbyrow as $fields)
$result .= implode(' ', $fields) . "\n";
return $result;
}
$textinfile = '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.';
foreach (array('L', 'R', 'C') as $j)
echo aligner($textinfile, $j);
?></lang>
PicoLisp
<lang PicoLisp>(let Sizes NIL # Build a list of sizes
(let Lines # and of lines
(make
(in "input.txt" # Reading input file
(while (split (line) "$") # delimited by '$'
(let (L (link (mapcar pack @)) S Sizes)
(setq Sizes # Maintain sizes
(make
(while (or L S)
(link
(max
(inc (length (pop 'L)))
(pop 'S) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )
(for L Lines # Print lines
(prinl (apply align L (mapcar - Sizes))) ) # left aligned
(prinl)
(for L Lines
(prinl (apply align L Sizes)) ) # right aligned
(prinl)
(for L Lines
(prinl (apply center L Sizes)) ) ) ) # and centered</lang>
Output:
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.
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.
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.
PL/I
<lang PL/I> declare text character (300) varying; declare word character (20) varying; declare justification character (1); declare k fixed binary; declare input file, output file output;
open file (input) title ( '/CENTER.DAT,type(text),recsize(1000)' ); open file (output) title ( '/OUT.TXT,type(text),recsize(1000)' ); on endfile (input) stop;
display ('Specify whether justification is left, centered, or right'); display ('Reply with a single letter: L, C, or R'); get edit (justification) (A(1));
do forever;
get file (input) edit (text) (L);
put skip list (text);
text = trim(text, '$', '$');
do until (k = 0);
k = index(text, '$');
if k = 0 then /* last word in line */
word = text;
else
do;
word = substr(text, 1, k-1);
text = substr(text, k);
text = trim(text, '$');
end;
select (justification);
when ('C', 'c') word = center(word, maxlength(word));
when ('R', 'r') word = right (word, maxlength(word));
otherwise ; /* The default is left adjusted. */
end;
put file (output) edit (word) (a(maxlength(word)));
end;
put file (output) skip;
end; </lang>
Prolog
Works with SWI-Prolog. <lang Prolog>aligner :- L ="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.",
% read the lines and the words % compute the length of the longuest word. % LP is the list of lines, % each line is a list of words parse(L, 0, N, LP, []),
% we need to add 1 to aligned N1 is N+1, % words will be left aligned sformat(AL, '~~w~~t~~~w|', [N1]), % words will be centered sformat(AC, '~~t~~w~~t~~~w|', [N1]), % words will be right aligned sformat(AR, '~~t~~w~~~w|', [N1]),
write('Left justified :'), nl, maplist(affiche(AL), LP), nl, write('Centered justified :'), nl, maplist(affiche(AC), LP), nl, write('Right justified :'), nl, maplist(affiche(AR), LP), nl.
affiche(F, L) :- maplist(my_format(F), L), nl.
my_format(_F, [13]) :- nl.
my_format(F, W) :- string_to_atom(W,AW), sformat(AF, F, [AW]), write(AF).
parse([], Max, Max) --> [].
parse(T, N, Max) --> { parse_line(T, 0, N1, T1, L, []), ( N1 > N -> N2 = N1; N2 = N)}, [L], parse(T1, N2, Max).
parse_line([], NF, NF, []) --> [].
parse_line([H|TF], NF, NF, TF) --> {code_type(H, end_of_line), !}, [].
parse_line(T, N, NF, TF) -->
{ parse_word(T, 0, N1, T1, W, []),
( N1 > N -> N2 = N1; N2 = N)},
[W],
parse_line(T1, N2, NF, TF).
% 36 is the code of '$' parse_word([36|T], N, N, T) --> {!}, [].
parse_word([H|T], N, N, [H|T]) --> {code_type(H, end_of_line), !}, [].
parse_word([], N, N, []) --> [].
parse_word([H|T], N1, NF, TF) --> [H], {N2 is N1 + 1}, parse_word(T, N2, NF, TF). </lang>
Output :
?- aligner.
Left justified :
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.
Centered justified :
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.
Right justified :
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.
true .
PureBasic
<lang PureBasic>Declare max(a,b)
If OpenConsole()
Define a, i, x, y, maxlen
Dim txt.s(0)
Restore lines ; Get address of the first data block
Read.i a
ReDim txt(a)
For i=0 To a ; Read the raw data lines
Read.s txt(i)
txt(i)=Trim(txt(i),"$") ; Remove any bad '$' that may be useless in the end...
x=max(CountString(txt(i),"$"),x)
Next
y=a
Dim matrix.s(x,y) ; Set up a nice matrix to work with, each word cleanly separated
For x=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),1)
For y=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),2)
matrix(x,y)=StringField(txt(y),x+1,"$")
maxlen=max(maxlen,Len(matrix(x,y)))
Next
Next
If maxlen%2
maxlen+1 ; Just to make sure that 'centered' output looks nice....
EndIf
PrintN(#CRLF$+"---- Right ----")
For y=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),2)
For x=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),1)
Print(RSet(matrix(x,y),maxlen+1))
Next
PrintN("")
Next
PrintN(#CRLF$+"---- Left ----")
For y=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),2)
For x=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),1)
Print(LSet(matrix(x,y),maxlen+1))
Next
PrintN("")
Next
PrintN(#CRLF$+"---- Center ----")
For y=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),2)
For x=0 To ArraySize(matrix(),1)
a=maxlen-Len(matrix(x,y))
Print(LSet(RSet(matrix(x,y),maxlen-a/2),maxlen))
Next
PrintN("")
Next
PrintN(#CRLF$+#CRLF$+"Press ENTER to quit."): Input()
CloseConsole()
EndIf
Procedure max(x,y)
If x>=y ProcedureReturn x Else ProcedureReturn y EndIf
EndProcedure
DataSection
lines:
Data.i 5 ; e.g. 6-1 since first line is equal to 'zero'.
text:
Data.s "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" Data.s "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" Data.s "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" Data.s "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." Data.s "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$oo$be$either$left$" Data.s "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
EndDataSection</lang>
Python
<lang python>from StringIO import StringIO
textinfile = 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.
j2justifier = dict(L=str.ljust, R=str.rjust, C=str.center)
def aligner(infile, justification = 'L'):
\
Justify columns of textual tabular input where the row separator is the newline
and the field separator is a 'dollar' character.
justification can be L, R, or C; (Left, Right, or Centered).
Return the justified output as a string
assert justification in j2justifier, "justification can be L, R, or C; (Left, Right, or Centered)."
justifier = j2justifier[justification]
fieldsbyrow= [line.strip().split('$') for line in infile]
# pad to same number of fields per row
maxfields = max(len(row) for row in fieldsbyrow)
fieldsbyrow = [fields + []*(maxfields - len(fields))
for fields in fieldsbyrow]
# rotate
fieldsbycolumn = zip(*fieldsbyrow)
# calculate max fieldwidth per column
colwidths = [max(len(field) for field in column)
for column in fieldsbycolumn]
# pad fields in columns to colwidth with spaces
fieldsbycolumn = [ [justifier(field, width) for field in column]
for width, column in zip(colwidths, fieldsbycolumn) ]
# rotate again
fieldsbyrow = zip(*fieldsbycolumn)
return "\n".join( " ".join(row) for row in fieldsbyrow)
for align in 'Left Right Center'.split():
infile = StringIO(textinfile) print "\n# %s Column-aligned output:" % align print aligner(infile, align[0])</lang>
Example output:
# Left Column-aligned output:
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.
# Right Column-aligned output:
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.
# Center Column-aligned output:
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.
Alternative version
<lang python>txt = """Given$a$txt$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."""
parts = [line.rstrip("$").split("$") for line in txt.splitlines()]
max_widths = {} for line in parts:
for i, word in enumerate(line):
max_widths[i] = max(max_widths.get(i, 0), len(word))
for i, justify in enumerate([str.ljust, str.center, str.rjust]):
print ["Left", "Center", "Right"][i], " column-aligned output:\n"
for line in parts:
for j, word in enumerate(line):
print justify(word, max_widths[j]),
print
print "- " * 52</lang>
R
<lang R># Read in text lines <- readLines(tc <- textConnection("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.")); close(tc)
- Split words by the dollar
words <- strsplit(lines, "\\$")
- Reformat
maxlen <- max(sapply(words, length)) words <- lapply(words, function(x) {length(x) <- maxlen; x}) block <- matrix(unlist(words), byrow=TRUE, ncol=maxlen) block[is.na(block)] <- "" leftjust <- format(block) rightjust <- format(block, justify="right") centrejust <- format(block, justify="centre")
print0 <- function(x) invisible(apply(x, 1, function(x) cat(x, "\n"))) print0(leftjust) print0(rightjust) print0(centrejust)</lang> Right justified output shown.
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.
Racket
<lang Racket>
- lang racket
(define (display-aligned text #:justify [justify 'left])
(define lines
(for/list ([line (regexp-split #rx"\n" text)])
(regexp-split #rx"\\$" line)))
(define width
(add1 (for*/fold ([m 0]) ([line lines] [word line])
(max m (string-length word)))))
(define spaces (make-string width #\space))
(for ([line lines])
(for* ([word line]
[strs (let ([spc (substring spaces (string-length word))])
(case justify
[(left) (list word spc)]
[(right) (list spc word)]
[(center) (let ([i (quotient (string-length spc) 2)])
(list (substring spc i)
word
(substring spc 0 i)))]))])
(display strs))
(newline)))
(define text
"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.")
(display-aligned text) (display-aligned #:justify 'right text) (display-aligned #:justify 'center text) </lang>
REBOL
<lang rebol>REBOL [ Title: "Align Columns" Author: oofoe Date: 2010-09-29 URL: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Align_columns ]
specimen: {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.}
- Parse specimen into data grid.
data: copy [] foreach line parse specimen to-string lf [ ; Break into lines. append/only data parse line "$" ; Break into columns. ]
- Compute independent widths for each column.
widths: copy [] insert/dup widths 0 length? data/1 foreach line data [ forall line [ i: index? line widths/:i: max widths/:i length? line/1 ] ]
pad: func [n /local x][x: copy "" insert/dup x " " n x]
- These formatting functions are passed as arguments to entable.
right: func [n s][rejoin [pad n - length? s s]]
left: func [n s][rejoin [s pad n - length? s]]
centre: func [n s /local h][ h: round/down (n - length? s) / 2 rejoin [pad h s pad n - h - length? s] ]
- Display data as table.
entable: func [data format] [ foreach line data [ forall line [ prin rejoin [format pick widths index? line line/1 " "] ] print "" ] ]
- Format data table.
foreach i [left centre right] [ print ["^/Align" i "...^/"] entable data get i] </lang>
Sample output:
Align left ...
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.
Align centre ...
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.
Align right ...
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.
REXX
(no output)
<lang rexx>/*REXX*/ z.1 = "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" z.2 = "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" z.3 = "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" z.4 = "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." z.5 = "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" z.6 = "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
word. = "" width. = 0 maxcol = 0 do row = 1 to 6
line = z.row do col = 1 by 1 until length(line) = 0 parse var line word.row.col "$" line if length(word.row.col) > width.col then width.col = length(word.row.col) end if col > maxcol then maxcol = col
end
say "align left:" say do row = 1 to 6
out = "" do col = 1 to maxcol out = out || left(word.row.col,width.col+1) end say out
end say say "align right:" say do row = 1 to 6
out = "" do col = 1 to maxcol out = out || right(word.row.col,width.col+1) end say out
end say say "align center:" say do row = 1 to 6
out = "" do col = 1 to maxcol out = out || center(word.row.col,width.col+1) end say out
end</lang>
(with output)
<lang rexx>/*REXX program displays various alignments for words in a text string.*/ cols=0; size=0; wid.=0; t.=; @.= /*zero|nullify some variables*/
/* [↓] some "text" lines. */
t.1 = "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" t.2 = "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" t.3 = "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" t.4 = "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." t.5 = "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" t.6 = "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
/* [↑] a null line is the end*/
do r=1 while t.r\== /* [↓] process all text lines*/
_=strip(t.r,,'$') /*strip leading & trailing $.*/
do c=1 until _== /* [↓] process each word. */
parse var _ @.r.c '$' _
wid.c=max(wid.c, length(@.r.c)) /*max word width.*/
end /*c*/
cols=max(cols,c) /*use the maximum COLS found.*/
end /*r*/
do k=1 for cols; size=size+wid.k; end /*find width of biggest line.*/
rows=r-1 /*adjust ROWS because of DO.*/
do j=1 for 3; say; say /*show 2 blank lines for sep.*/
say center(word('left right center', j) "aligned", size+cols-1, "═")
do r=1 for rows; _= /*build row by row*/
do c=1 for cols; x=@.r.c /* " col " col*/
if j==1 then _=_ left(x, wid.c) /*justified left.*/
if j==2 then _=_ right(x, wid.c) /* " right.*/
if j==3 then _=_ centre(x, wid.c) /* " center.*/
end /*c*/
say substr(_,2) /*ignore the leading extra blank.*/
end /*r*/
end /*j*/
/*stick a fork in it, we're done.*/</lang>
output
══════════════════════════════════════════════left aligned══════════════════════════════════════════════
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.
═════════════════════════════════════════════right aligned══════════════════════════════════════════════
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.
═════════════════════════════════════════════center aligned═════════════════════════════════════════════
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.
(boxed output)
Note: This version boxes each column of output to better show the columns. <lang rexx>/*REXX program displays various alignments for words in a text string.*/ cols=0; size=0; wid.=0; t.=; @.= /*zero|nullify some variables*/
/* [↓] some "text" lines. */
t.1 = "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" t.2 = "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" t.3 = "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" t.4 = "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." t.5 = "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" t.6 = "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
/* [↑] a null line is the end*/
do r=1 while t.r\== /* [↓] process all text lines*/
_=strip(t.r,,'$') /*strip leading & trailing $.*/
do c=1 until _== /* [↓] process each word. */
parse var _ @.r.c '$' _
wid.c=max(wid.c, length(@.r.c)) /*max word width.*/
end /*c*/
cols=max(cols,c) /*use the maximum COLS found.*/
end /*r*/
do k=1 for cols; size=size+wid.k; end /*find width of biggest line.*/
rows=r-1 /*adjust ROWS because of DO.*/
do j=1 for 3; say; say /*show 2 blank lines for sep.*/
say center(word('left right center', j) "aligned", size+cols+1, "═")
do r=0 to rows; _=; !='│'; if r==0 then !='┬'
do c=1 for cols; x=@.r.c
if r==0 then x=copies("─",wid.c+1)
if j==1 then _=_ || ! || left(x,wid.c)
if j==2 then _=_ || ! || right(x,wid.c)
if j==3 then _=_ || ! || centre(x,wid.c)
end /*c*/
if r==0 then do; _= '┌'substr(_,2,length(_)-1)"┐"
bot= '└'substr(_,2,length(_)-2)"┘"
end
else _=_ || !
say _
end /*r*/
/* [↑] shows words in boxes.*/
say translate(bot,'┴',"┬")
end /*j*/</lang>
output
═══════════════════════════════════════════════left aligned═══════════════════════════════════════════════ ┌──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────┬──────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬────┐ │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.│ │ │ │ └──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────┴──────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════right aligned═══════════════════════════════════════════════ ┌──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────┬──────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬────┐ │ 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.│ │ │ │ └──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────┴──────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════center aligned══════════════════════════════════════════════ ┌──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────┬──────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬────┐ │ 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.│ │ │ │ └──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────┴──────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴────┘
Ruby
<lang ruby>J2justifier = {'L' => :ljust,
'R' => :rjust,
'C' => :center}
=begin Justify columns of textual tabular input where the record separator is the newline and the field separator is a 'dollar' character. justification can be L, R, or C; (Left, Right, or Centered).
Return the justified output as a string =end def aligner(infile, justification = 'L')
fieldsbyrow = infile.map {|line| line.strip.split('$')}
# pad to same number of fields per record
maxfields = fieldsbyrow.map(&:length).max
fieldsbyrow.map! {|row| row + []*(maxfields - row.length)}
# calculate max fieldwidth per column
colwidths = fieldsbyrow.transpose.map {|column|
column.map(&:length).max
}
# pad fields in columns to colwidth with spaces
justifier = J2justifier[justification]
fieldsbyrow.map {|row|
row.zip(colwidths).map {|field, width|
field.send(justifier, width)
}.join(" ")
}.join("\n")
end
require 'stringio'
textinfile = <<END 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. END
for align in %w{Left Right Center}
infile = StringIO.new(textinfile) puts "\n# %s Column-aligned output:" % align puts aligner(infile, align[0..0])
end</lang>
Example output:
# Left Column-aligned output:
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.
# Right Column-aligned output:
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.
# Center Column-aligned output:
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.
Run BASIC
<lang Runbasic>theString$ = "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."
x = shoTable(theString$,"left",6) x = shoTable(theString$,"right",6) x = shoTable(theString$,"center",6) end
FUNCTION shoTable(theString$,align$,across) print "------------ align:";align$;" -- across:";across;" ------------" dim siz(across) b$ = " " while word$(theString$,i+1,"$") <> "" siz(i mod across) = max(siz(i mod across),len(word$(theString$,i + 1,"$"))) i = i + 1 wend for i = 0 to across - 1 siz(i) = siz(i) + 1 if siz(i) and 1 then siz(i) = siz(i) + 1 next i
i = 0 a$ = word$(theString$,i+1,"$") while a$ <> ""
s = siz(i mod across) - len(a$)
if align$ = "right" then a$ = left$(b$,s);a$ if align$ = "left" then a$ = a$;left$(b$,s) if align$ = "center" then a$ = left$(b$,int(s / 2));a$;left$(b$,int(s / 2) + (s and 1)) print "|";a$; i = i + 1 if i mod across = 0 then print "|" a$ = word$(theString$,i+1,"$") wend print end function</lang>Output:
------------ align:left -- across:6 ------------ |Given |a |text |file |of |many | |lines, |where |fields |within |a |line | |are |delineated |by |a |single |'dollar' | |character, |write |a |programthat |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. ------------ align:right -- across:6 ------------ | Given| a| text| file| of| many| | lines,| where| fields| within| a| line| | are| delineated| by| a| single| 'dollar'| | character,| write| a| programthat| 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. ------------ align:center -- across:6 ------------ | Given | a | text | file | of | many | | lines, | where | fields | within | a | line | | are | delineated | by | a | single | 'dollar' | | character, | write | a |programthat | 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.
Rust
<lang Rust> enum AlignmentType { Left, Center, Right }
fn get_column_widths(text: &str) -> Vec<uint> { let mut widths = Vec::new(); for line in text.lines().map(|s| s.trim_chars(' ').trim_right_chars('$')) { let mut lens = line.split('$').map(|s| s.char_len()); let mut idx = 0; for len in lens { if idx < widths.len() { widths[idx] = std::cmp::max(widths[idx], len); } else { widths.push(len); } idx += 1; } } widths }
fn align_columns(text: &str, alignment: AlignmentType) -> String { let widths = get_column_widths(text); let mut result = String::new(); for line in text.lines().map(|s| s.trim_chars(' ').trim_right_chars('$')) { for (s, w) in line.split('$').zip(widths.iter()) { let blank_count = w - s.char_len(); let (pre, post) = match alignment { Left => (0, blank_count), Center => (blank_count / 2, (blank_count + 1) / 2), Right => (blank_count, 0), }; result.grow(pre, ' '); result.push_str(s); result.grow(post, ' '); result.push(' '); } result.push_str("\n"); } result }
fn main() { let text = r#"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."#;
println!("{}", align_columns(text, Left));
println!("{}", String::from_char(110, '-'));
println!("{}", align_columns(text, Center));
println!("{}", String::from_char(110, '-'));
println!("{}", align_columns(text, Right));
}
</lang> Output:
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
Scala
For Scala 2.7, change from fromPath to fromFile, and remove the extra parameter to Source's getLines.
<lang scala>object ColumnAligner {
val eol = System.getProperty("line.separator")
def getLines(filename: String) = scala.io.Source.fromPath(filename).getLines(eol)
def splitter(line: String) = line split '$'
def getTable(filename: String) = getLines(filename) map splitter
def fieldWidths(fields: Array[String]) = fields map (_ length)
def columnWidths(txt: Iterator[Array[String]]) = (txt map fieldWidths).toList.transpose map (_ max)
def alignField(alignment: Char)(width: Int)(field: String) = alignment match {
case 'l' | 'L' => "%-"+width+"s" format field
case 'r' | 'R' => "%"+width+"s" format field
case 'c' | 'C' => val padding = (width - field.length) / 2; " "*padding+"%-"+(width-padding)+"s" format field
case _ => throw new IllegalArgumentException
}
def align(aligners: List[String => String])(fields: Array[String]) =
aligners zip fields map Function.tupled(_ apply _)
def alignFile(filename: String, alignment: Char) = {
def table = getTable(filename)
val aligners = columnWidths(table) map alignField(alignment)
table map align(aligners) map (_ mkString " ")
}
def printAlignedFile(filename: String, alignment: Char) {
alignFile(filename, alignment) foreach println
}
}</lang>
Another take:
<lang scala>def pad(s:String, i:Int, d:String) = {
val padsize = (i-s.length).max(0)
d match {
case "left" => s+" "*padsize
case "right" => " "*padsize+s
case "center" => " "*(padsize/2) + s + " "*(padsize-padsize/2)
}
}
val lines = scala.io.Source.fromFile("c:\\text.txt").getLines.map(_.trim()) val words = lines.map(_.split("\\$").toList).toList val lens = words.map(l => l.map(_.length)).toList
var maxlens = Map[Int,Int]() withDefaultValue 0 lens foreach (l =>
for(i <- (0 until l.length)){
maxlens += i -> l(i).max(maxlens(i))
}
)
val padded = words map ( _.zipWithIndex.map{case(s,i)=>pad(s,maxlens(i),"center")+" "} ) padded map (_.reduceLeft(_ + _)) foreach println</lang>
sed
The code allows to left (by default) or right justify colums. Centering is not supported. Requires about 2x<size of input> bytes of memory (each line duplicated). <lang sed>
- !/bin/sed -nrf
- Format: <master-pattern>\n<line1>\n<line1-as-pattern>\n<line2>\n<line2-as-pattern>...
- After reading whole file <master-pattern> contains max number of fields of max width each.
- If no $ at start or end of a line -- add them
/^\$/! s/^/$/ /\$$/! s/$/$/
- First line saved as three lines in hold space:
- <line1-as-pattern>\n<line1>\n<line1-as-pattern>
1{
h s/[^$]/ /g H G x # Restart -- go to next line b
}
- For lines 2,3,...
H
- Current line -> pattern
- (each character replaced by constant symbol (e.g. space) so that we can count them)
s/[^$]/ /g H G
- Add two markers
s/\$/1$/ s/(\n[^$]*)\$/\12$/
- Compare patterns
- cmp
s/(1\$([^$\n]*)([^$\n]*)[^2]*2\$\2)/\1\3/ /1\$\n/ bout # Advance markers s/1(\$[^12$\n]*)/\11/ s/2(\$[^12$\n]*)/\12/ # Add one more field /^[^2]*2\$\n/{ s/^([^2]*)2\$\n/\12$$\n/; } bcmp
- out
- Remove first line
s/[^\n]*\n//
- Remove 2$-marker
s/2\$/$/ x
${
- We are on the last line -- start printing
x; # Add a line for aligned string s/^/\n/ :nextline # Add marker again (only one this time) s/\$/1$/ :align # 1. look up missing spaces, # 2. put first word of 2nd line before first newline adding missing spaces # 3. cut first word of 2nd and 3rd lines. # Replace \5\3 by \3\5 for RIGHT ALIGNMENT s/(\n[^\n]*)1\$([^$\n]*)([^$\n]*)\$([^\n]*\n)\$([^$\n]*)([^\n]*\n)\$\2\$/\5\3 \1$\2\31$\4\6$/ talign # We ate 2nd and 3rd lines completely, except newlines -- remove them s/\$\n\$\n\$\n/$\n/ # Print the first line in pattern space P # ... and remove it s/^[^\n]*// # Remove marker s/1\$/$/ # If no more lines -- exit /\$\n\$$/q bnextline } </lang> Example:
$ cat align.txt 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. $ ./align-columns.sed align.txt 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.
Seed7
<lang seed7>$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
const array string: inputLines is [] (
"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.");
const func array integer: computeColumnWidths (in array string: inputLines) is func
result
var array integer: columnWidths is 0 times 0;
local
var string: line is "";
var array string: lineFields is 0 times "";
var integer: index is 0;
begin
for line range inputLines do
lineFields := split(line, "$");
if length(lineFields) > length(columnWidths) then
columnWidths &:= (length(lineFields) - length(columnWidths)) times 0;
end if;
for index range 1 to length(lineFields) do
if length(lineFields[index]) > columnWidths[index] then
columnWidths[index] := length(lineFields[index]);
end if;
end for;
end for;
end func;
const func string: center (in string: stri, in integer: length) is
return ("" lpad (length - length(stri)) div 2 <& stri) rpad length;
const proc: main is func
local
var array integer: columnWidths is 0 times 0;
var string: line is "";
var array string: lineFields is 0 times "";
var integer: index is 0;
begin
columnWidths := computeColumnWidths(inputLines);
for line range inputLines do
lineFields := split(line, "$");
for index range 1 to length(lineFields) do
# write(lineFields[index] rpad columnWidths[index] <& " "); # Left justify
# write(lineFields[index] lpad columnWidths[index] <& " "); # Right justify
write(center(lineFields[index], columnWidths[index]) <& " ");
end for;
writeln;
end for;
end func;</lang>
Output:
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.
Shiny
<lang shiny>text: '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.'
align: action text; position;
# split text into 2D array of lines and words
lines : { for text.split ~\$?\r?\n~ { for a.split '$' a end } end }
# calculate max required width for each column
widths: { for lines for a here[b]: a.length.max here[b]? ends }
spaces: action out ("%%%ds" in).format end
# formatting functions
left: action word; width;
pad: width-word.length
print "%s%s " word spaces pad
end
right: action word; width;
pad: width-word.length
print "%s%s " spaces pad word
end
center: action word; width;
pad: (width-word.length)/2
print "%s%s%s " spaces pad.floor word spaces pad.ceil
end
if position.match ~^(left|center|right)$~ for lines
for a local[position] a widths[b] end say
ends say
end
align text 'left' align text 'center' align text 'right'</lang>
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.
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.
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.
Sidef
<lang ruby>class Format(text, width) {
method output(j) {
self.text.each { |row|
row.pairs.each { |i, word|
'%-*s '.printf(self.width[i],
'%*s' % (word.len + (self.width[i]-word.len * j/2), word)
);
};
.say;
};
.say;
}
}
class Formatter(input) {
method new {
var textArr = [];
var widthArr = [];
self.input.each_line {
var words = .split('$');
textArr.append(words);
words.pairs.each { |i, word|
if (i == widthArr.len) {
widthArr.append(word.len);
}
elsif (word.len > widthArr[i]) {
widthArr[i] = word.len;
}
}
}
return main::Format(textArr, widthArr); }
}
{
enum |left, middle, right|; const text = <<'EOT';
Given$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. EOT
var f = Formatter(text);
f.output(left); f.output(middle); f.output(right);
}.exec;</lang>
Tcl
<lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.5
set text {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.}
array set max {} foreach line [split $text \n] {
set col 0
set thisline [split $line \$]
lappend words $thisline
foreach word $thisline {
set max([incr col]) [expr {[info exists max($col)]
? max($max($col), [string length $word])
: [string length $word]
}]
}
}
proc justify {word position width} {
switch -exact -- $position {
left {
return [format "%-*s" $width $word]
}
center {
set lpadw [expr {($width - [string length $word])/2}]
return [format "%s%-*s" [string repeat " " $lpadw] [incr width -$lpadw] $word]
}
right {
return [format "%*s" $width $word]
}
}
}
foreach position {left center right} {
foreach thisline $words {
set col 0
set line ""
foreach word $thisline {
append line [justify $word $position $max([incr col])] " "
}
puts [string trimright $line]
}
puts ""
}</lang> Output:
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.
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.
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.
TUSCRIPT
<lang tuscript> $$ MODE TUSCRIPT MODE DATA $$ SET exampletext=* 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. $$ MODE TUSCRIPT SET nix=SPLIT (exampletext,":$:",c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,c7,c8,c9,c10,c11,c12) LOOP l1=1,12 SET colum=CONCAT ("c",l1) SET newcolum=CONCAT ("new",l1) SET @newcolum="", length=MAX LENGTH (@colum), space=length+2
LOOP n,l2=@colum SET newcell=CENTER (l2,space) SET @newcolum=APPEND (@newcolum,"~",newcell) ENDLOOP SET @newcolum=SPLIT (@newcolum,":~:")
ENDLOOP SET exampletext=JOIN(new1,"$",new2,new3,new4,new5,new6,new7,new8,new9,new10,new11,new12) </lang> Output:
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. $ $ $
TXR
<lang txr>@(collect) @ (coll)@{item /[^$]+/}@(end) @(end) @; nc = number of columns @; pi = padded items (data with row lengths equalized with empty strings) @; cw = vector of max column widths @; ce = center padding @(bind nc @[apply max [mapcar length item]]) @(bind pi @(mapcar (op append @1 (repeat '("") (- nc (length @1)))) item)) @(bind cw @(vector-list
(mapcar (op apply max [mapcar length @1])
;; matrix transpose trick cols become rows:
[apply mapcar [cons list pi]])))
@(bind ns "") @(output) @ (repeat) @ (rep :counter i)@{pi @[cw i]} @(end) @ (end) @ (repeat) @ (rep :counter i)@{pi @(- [cw i])} @(end) @ (end) @ (repeat) @ (rep :counter i)@\
@{ns @(trunc (- [cw i] (length pi)) 2)}@\
@{pi @(- [cw i] (trunc (- [cw i] (length pi)) 2))} @(end)
@ (end) @(end)</lang>
$ txr align-columns.txr align-columns.dat
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.
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.
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.
UNIX Shell
This is a draft implementation of the "align columns" problem using Unix shell commands. The key tool for left and right justified text is the "rs" command. Centered text is a little more complex, since this is not a feature currently in "rs" (The centered solution will be added later.) <lang bash> cat <<EOF_OUTER > just-nocenter.sh
- !/bin/sh
td() { cat <<'EOF' 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. EOF }
rows=$( td | wc -l )
- get the number of fields
fields=$(td | rs -c'$' -g1 -h | awk '{print $2}')
- get the max of the value widths
cwidth=$(td | rs -c'$' -g1 -w1 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN{w=0}{if(length>w){w=length}}END{print w}')
- compute the minimum line width for the columns
lwidth=$(( (1 + cwidth) * fields ))
- left adjusted columns
td | rs -c'$' -g1 -zn -w$lwidth
echo ""
- right adjusted columns
td | rs -c'$' -g1 -znj -w$lwidth
echo ""
exit EOF_OUTER </lang> Output: <lang sh> $ ./just-nocenter.sh 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.
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. </lang>
The centered output will be added later, when I've more time. I did this in about 10 minutes.
Ursala
The algorithm is to lex the text to a list of lists of strings assuming $ as a separator, then pad the lists out to the length of the maximum length list, transpose, do the same with each column, and transpose again. For left justification, nothing further but concatenation is needed. For right justification, each word's string of trailing blanks is moved to the beginning, and for center justification, the trailing blanks are divided equally between the beginning and end of each word. <lang Ursala>#import std
text =
-[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.]-
pad = sep`$*; @FS ~&rSSSK7+ (zipp` ^*D\~& leql$^)*rSSK7+ zipp0^*D/leql$^ ~&
just_left = mat` *+ pad just_right = mat` *+ pad; ==` ~-rlT** just_center = mat` *+ pad; ==` ~-rK30PlrK31PTT**
- show+
main = mat0 <.just_left,just_center,just_right> text</lang> output:
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.
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.
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.
VBA
Call subroutine "TestSplit" with arguments align (one of: "left", "right", "center") and spacing (an integer) between columns. Both arguments are optional and default to "left" and 1 respectively.
<lang vb> Public Sub TestSplit(Optional align As String = "left", Optional spacing As Integer = 1)
Dim word() As String
Dim colwidth() As Integer
Dim ncols As Integer
Dim lines(6) As String
Dim nlines As Integer
'check arguments
If Not (align = "left" Or align = "right" Or align = "center") Then
MsgBox "TestSplit: wrong argument 'align': " & align
Exit Sub
End If
If spacing < 0 Then
MsgBox "TestSplit: wrong argument: 'spacing' cannot be negative."
Exit Sub
End If
' Sample Input (should be from a file)
nlines = 6
lines(1) = "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$"
lines(2) = "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program"
lines(3) = "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$"
lines(4) = "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space."
lines(5) = "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$"
lines(6) = "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
'first pass: count columns and column widths
'the words are not kept in memory
ncols = -1
For l = 1 To nlines
word = Split(RTrim(lines(l)), "$")
If UBound(word) > ncols Then
ncols = UBound(word)
ReDim Preserve colwidth(ncols)
End If
For i = 0 To UBound(word)
If Len(word(i)) > colwidth(i) Then colwidth(i) = Len(word(i))
Next i
Next l
'discard possibly empty columns at the right
'(this assumes there is at least one non-empty column)
While colwidth(ncols) = 0
ncols = ncols - 1
Wend
'second pass: print in columns
For l = 1 To nlines
word = Split(RTrim(lines(l)), "$")
For i = 0 To UBound(word)
a = word(i)
w = colwidth(i)
If align = "left" Then
Debug.Print a + String$(w - Len(a), " ");
ElseIf align = "right" Then
Debug.Print String$(w - Len(a), " ") + a;
ElseIf align = "center" Then
d = Int((w - Len(a)) / 2)
Debug.Print String$(d, " ") + a + String$(w - (d + Len(a)), " ");
End If
If i < ncols Then Debug.Print Spc(spacing);
Next i
Debug.Print
Next l
End Sub </lang>
Sample Output:
testsplit , 4 'default alignment, non-default spacing Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each column are separated by at least one space. Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left justified, right justified, or center justified within its column. testsplit "center" 'non-default alignment, default spacing Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each column are separated by at least one space. Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Vedit macro language
This implementation converts the file currently being edited. The file can then be saved with different filename if required. <lang vedit>RS(10, "$") // Field separator
- 11 = 1 // Align: 1 = left, 2 = center, 3 = right
// Reset column widths. Max 50 columns for (#1=40; #1<90; #1++) { #@1 = 0 }
// Find max width of each column BOF Repeat(ALL) {
for (#1=40; #1<90; #1++) {
Match(@10, ADVANCE) // skip field separator if any
#2 = Cur_Pos Search("|{|@(10),|N}", NOERR) // field separator or end of line #3 = Cur_Pos - #2 // width of text if (#3 > #@1) { #@1 = #3 } if (At_EOL) { Break }
} Line(1, ERRBREAK)
}
// Convert lines BOF Repeat(ALL) {
for (#1=40; #1<90; #1++) {
#2 = Cur_Pos Search("|{|@(10),|N}", NOERR) if (At_EOL==0) { Del_Char(Chars_Matched) } #3 = #@1 - Cur_Pos + #2 // number of spaces to insert #4 = 0 if (#11 == 2) { #4 = #3/2; #3 -= #4 } // Center if (#11 == 3) { #4 = #3; #3 = 0 } // Right justify Set_Marker(1, Cur_Pos) Goto_Pos(#2) Ins_Char(' ', COUNT, #4) // add spaces before the word Goto_Pos(Marker(1)) Ins_Char(' ', COUNT, #3+1) // add spaces after the word if (At_EOL) { Break }
} Line(1, ERRBREAK)
}</lang>
Example output:
-- Left:
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.
-- Center:
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.
-- Right:
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.
Visual Basic
<lang vb>Sub AlignCols(Lines, Optional Align As AlignmentConstants, Optional Sep$ = "$", Optional Sp% = 1) Dim i&, j&, D&, L&, R&: ReDim W(UBound(Lines)): ReDim C&(0)
For j = 0 To UBound(W) W(j) = Split(Lines(j), Sep) If UBound(W(j)) > UBound(C) Then ReDim Preserve C(UBound(W(j))) For i = 0 To UBound(W(j)): If Len(W(j)(i)) > C(i) Then C(i) = Len(W(j)(i)) Next i, j
For j = 0 To UBound(W): For i = 0 To UBound(W(j)) D = C(i) - Len(W(j)(i)) L = Choose(Align + 1, 0, D, D \ 2) R = Choose(Align + 1, D, 0, D - L) + Sp Debug.Print Space(L); W(j)(i); Space(R); IIf(i < UBound(W(j)), "", vbLf); Next i, j
End Sub</lang> Usage:<lang vb>Sub Main() 'usage of the above Const Text$ = "Given$W$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$W$line$" & vbLf & _
"are$delineated$by$W$single$'dollar'$character,$write$W$program" & vbLf & _
"that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" & vbLf & _
"column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." & vbLf & _
"Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$W$column$to$be$either$left$" & vbLf & _
"justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
Debug.Print vbLf; "-- Left:": AlignCols Split(Text, vbLf), vbLeftJustify
Debug.Print vbLf; "-- Center:": AlignCols Split(Text, vbLf), vbCenter
Debug.Print vbLf; "-- Right:": AlignCols Split(Text, vbLf), vbRightJustify
End Sub</lang>
Output:
-- Left:
Given W text file of many lines, where fields within W line
are delineated by W single 'dollar' character, write W 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 W column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
-- Center:
Given W text file of many lines, where fields within W line
are delineated by W single 'dollar' character, write W 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 W column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
-- Right:
Given W text file of many lines, where fields within W line
are delineated by W single 'dollar' character, write W 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 W column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
Visual Basic .NET
<lang Visual Basic .NET> Module Module1
Private Delegate Function Justification(s As String, width As Integer) As String
Private Function AlignColumns(lines As String(), justification As Justification) As String()
Const Separator As Char = "$"c
' build input container table and calculate columns count
Dim containerTbl As String()() = New String(lines.Length - 1)() {}
Dim columns As Integer = 0
For i As Integer = 0 To lines.Length - 1
Dim row As String() = lines(i).TrimEnd(Separator).Split(Separator)
If columns < row.Length Then
columns = row.Length
End If
containerTbl(i) = row
Next
' create formatted container table
Dim formattedTable As String()() = New String(containerTbl.Length - 1)() {}
For i As Integer = 0 To formattedTable.Length - 1
formattedTable(i) = New String(columns - 1) {}
Next
For j As Integer = 0 To columns - 1
' get max column width
Dim columnWidth As Integer = 0
For i As Integer = 0 To containerTbl.Length - 1
If j < containerTbl(i).Length AndAlso columnWidth < containerTbl(i)(j).Length Then
columnWidth = containerTbl(i)(j).Length
End If
Next
' justify column cells
For i As Integer = 0 To formattedTable.Length - 1
If j < containerTbl(i).Length Then
formattedTable(i)(j) = justification(containerTbl(i)(j), columnWidth)
Else
formattedTable(i)(j) = New [String](" "c, columnWidth)
End If
Next
Next
' create result
Dim result As String() = New String(formattedTable.Length - 1) {}
For i As Integer = 0 To result.Length - 1
result(i) = [String].Join(" ", formattedTable(i))
Next
Return result
End Function
Private Function JustifyLeft(s As String, width As Integer) As String
Return s.PadRight(width)
End Function
Private Function JustifyRight(s As String, width As Integer) As String
Return s.PadLeft(width)
End Function
Private Function JustifyCenter(s As String, width As Integer) As String
Return s.PadLeft((width + s.Length) / 2).PadRight(width)
End Function
Sub Main()
Dim input As String() = {"Given$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$column."}
For Each line As String In AlignColumns(input, AddressOf JustifyLeft)
Console.WriteLine(line)
Next
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module
</lang>
Example output:
-- Left:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
-- Center:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
-- Right:
Given a text file of many lines, where fields within a line
are delineated by a single 'dollar' character, write a program
that aligns each column of fields by ensuring that words in each
column are separated by at least one space.
Further, allow for each word in a column to be either left
justified, right justified, or center justified within its column.
zkl
<lang zkl>text:= "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$\n" "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program\n" "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$\n" "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.\n" "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$\n" "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.\n";
fcn format(text,how){
words:=text.split("$").apply("split").flatten();
max:=words.reduce(fcn(p,n){n=n.len(); n>p and n or p},0);
wordsPerCol:=80/(max+1);
fmt:=(switch(how){
case(-1){"%%-%ds ".fmt(max).fmt}
case(0) {fcn(max,w){
a:=(max-w.len())/2; b:=max-w.len()-a; String(" "*a,w," "*b);
}.fp(max)
}
case(1){"%%%ds ".fmt(max).fmt}
});
w:=words.walker(); d:=Data(0,Int);
do{w.pump(wordsPerCol,d,fmt).append("\n");} while(not w.atEnd);
d.text;
}
format(text,-1).print(); format(text, 0).print(); format(text, 1).print();</lang> Blow apart the text into a list of words, find max len of any word, calc how many words will fit on a 80 col line, format all words into a bit bucket line at a time. Formatting is "%-ms" or "%ms" for left & right justify (m is field width), calculated for center. fmt is the string format method or center calc function, depending. Where string formatting can be used, it would be better to format all words in a line in one go but the code would be longer.
- Output:
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.
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.
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.
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