From: "Eustáquio Rangel" <eustaquiorangel@...>
Date: 2008-12-06T10:04:39+09:00
Subject: Re: formatting print output

> How do I format the output from print or puts
> so that columns are aligned:
>
> So this:
> beagle-status  255
> bibtex  154312
> bioradtopgm  7844
> bison  242032
> blackjack  140792

Kind of:

a = [["beagle-status",255], ["bibtex",154312], ["bioradtopgm",7844],
["bison",242032], ["blackjack",140792]]
a.each do |item|
	puts "#{sprintf('%-20s',item[0])} #{item[1]}"
end

Result:

beagle-status 255
bibtex             154312
bioradtopgm  7844
bison              242032
blackjack        140792

Regards.