in reply to Re: How to find start position of each column
in thread How to find start position of each column

Bah, count? I thought that was why we had computers . . .

perl -le 'print join ( "", map { " " x 9 . $_ } 1..8 ), "\n", "1234567 +890" x 8'

Update: Fore (and putting it to use :) . . .

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 + 8 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 +1234567890 perl -le'print join("",map{" "x9 .$_}1..8),"\n","1234567890"x8' ruby -e'puts (?1..?8).map{|x|" "*9<<x}.join+"\n"+"1234567890"*8'

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Re^3: How to find start position of each column
by grinder (Bishop) on May 28, 2008 at 14:05 UTC

    Heh, it's been done before.

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