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Task/Align-columns/Visual-Basic-.NET/align-columns.visual

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+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