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I have a text file delimited by coma. My question is how can I print this file with fixed length of each field so that it looks nicer.
example
this is what i have
In many languages you will find some variant of the printf() function. The format specifiers for most variable types allow you to specify a minimum field width.
You could have preserved the formatting of your example by enclosing it in [c o d e] tags.
Like this
I have a similar problem but I don't have a fix number of columns.
How can I extend the last code to handle any number of columns specified as a variable?
I know that this is an old post, but it was usefull to me, so here i let you the code that I created from the last one posted here (Thanks Tinkster ). This should work with any number of fields.
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