Re: Is it possible to move a column where column on right is variable width

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, May 16 2017, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:35 PM Angus Comber 
> <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I downloaded a file, LSE.txt from this link:
>>
>> http://www.eoddata.com/Data/symbollist.aspx?e=LSE
>
>
> I cannot access that site without a login, but I used the below 
> data
> snippet of yours.
>
>
>> which is of the form:
>>
>> symbol<tab>Description
>>
>> the description is pretty free form.  Here are some examples:
>>
>> 06GG.L  BARCLAYS BANK PLC UNDATED FLTG RATE PRIM CAP 
>> NOTES'2'USD
>> 06GL.L  NATIONAL GRID GAS 8.75% BDS 27/6/25 GBP(VAR)
>> 07OZ.L  HAMMERSON PLC 6.875% BDS 31/3/20 GBP(VAR)
>>
>> Is there any way to do what I want?
>>
>
> As the Description portion of the data is not of equal width, 
> using
> rectanges gets tricky.

Unless you do the totally uncool thing of adding enough spaces to 
the final line so that you can create a rectangle of the 
appropriate size. It'll cost you some geek points, but it gets the 
job done. ;-)



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