Hi, I was wondering how I might align text using a regular expression. Here is an example input: 
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|1234
ABCDEFGHI|12345
ABCDE|1234
ABCDEFGHIJKL|123
ABCDEFG|123456
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO|12

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I want to split at the pipeline and align everything to the right on the 45th char along. So something like this: 
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST                         1234
ABCDEFGHI                                    12345
ABCDE                                        1234
ABCDEFGHIJKL                                 123
ABCDEFG                                      123456
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO                              12

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So I would imagine using s/|/*t*/; where *t* some how aligns the text to the 45th char.

Any ideas? Thanks.

In reply to Alignment of text using regex by Anonymous Monk

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