RosettaCodeData/Task/Align-columns/Haskell/align-columns-1.hs

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Haskell

import Data.List (unfoldr, transpose)
import Control.Arrow (second)
dat =
"Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$\n" ++
"are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program\n" ++
"that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$\n" ++
"column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.\n" ++
"Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$\n" ++
"justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column.\n"
brkdwn =
takeWhile (not . null) . unfoldr (Just . second (drop 1) . span ('$' /=))
format j ls = map (unwords . zipWith align colw) rows
where
rows = map brkdwn $ lines ls
colw = map (maximum . map length) . transpose $ rows
align cw w =
case j of
'c' -> replicate l ' ' ++ w ++ replicate r ' '
'r' -> replicate dl ' ' ++ w
'l' -> w ++ replicate dl ' '
where
dl = cw - length w
(l, r) = (dl `div` 2, dl - l)