RosettaCodeData/Task/Align-columns/Ada/align-columns.ada

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Ada

with Ada.Characters.Latin_1; use Ada.Characters.Latin_1;
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Strings_Edit; use Strings_Edit;
procedure Column_Aligner is
Text : constant String :=
"Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$" & NUL &
"are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program" & NUL &
"that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$" & NUL &
"column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space." & NUL &
"Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$" & NUL &
"justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column." & NUL;
File : File_Type;
Width : array (1..1_000) of Natural := (others => 0);
Line : String (1..200);
Column : Positive := 1;
Start : Positive := 1;
Pointer : Positive;
begin
Create (File, Out_File, "columned.txt");
-- Determining the widths of columns
for I in Text'Range loop
case Text (I) is
when '$' | NUL =>
Width (Column) := Natural'Max (Width (Column), I - Start + 1);
Start := I + 1;
if Text (I) = NUL then
Column := 1;
else
Column := Column + 1;
end if;
when others =>
null;
end case;
end loop;
-- Formatting
for Align in Alignment loop
Column := 1;
Start := 1;
Pointer := 1;
for I in Text'Range loop
case Text (I) is
when '$' | NUL =>
Put -- Formatted output of a word
( Destination => Line,
Pointer => Pointer,
Value => Text (Start..I - 1),
Field => Width (Column),
Justify => Align
);
Start := I + 1;
if Text (I) = NUL then
Put_Line (File, Line (1..Pointer - 1));
Pointer := 1;
Column := 1;
else
Column := Column + 1;
end if;
when others =>
null;
end case;
end loop;
end loop;
Close (File);
end Column_Aligner;