> I thought you were trying to align all the comments from a text like this:

Oh in this case I'd use the same "match-and-printf" construct, it's extremely flexible.

D:\tmp>perl -E"say '.' x rand(70) . '# test comment' for 1..3"
....................# test comment
...................................# test comment
.......................# test comment

D:\tmp>perl -E"say '.' x rand(70) . '# test comment' for 1..20" |perl 
+-lpe " /(.*?)(#.*)/ and $_ = sprintf qq{%-68s  %s},$1,$2"
.....................                                                 
+# test comment
..............................................................        
+# test comment
..................................................................... 
+ # test comment
....................................                                  
+# test comment
..........................................................            
+# test comment
...............................................                       
+# test comment
............................................................          
+# test comment
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+# test comment
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+# test comment
...............                                                       
+# test comment
..............................                                        
+# test comment
....................................                                  
+# test comment
...................................................                   
+# test comment
.................................                                     
+# test comment
...........................................................           
+# test comment
..........                                                            
+# test comment
.......................................................               
+# test comment
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+# test comment
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+# test comment
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+# test comment

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^4: One-liner to append text at fixed column by LanX
in thread One-liner to append text at fixed column by LanX

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