Align text in a block

[rslotpole]

Hi,

I have an 80 column file. In Columns 10 through 20 I have numbers but some of them are aligned right and some of them are aligned left within the block marked 10 to 20. Is there a way to align all these numbers to the right within the block i.e. they all end in column 20?

Great product. Thanks for your help.

[ben_josephs]

It depends on exactly how the lines are constrained. If each one is exactly 80 characters long, and if the 11 columns 10 to 20 contain a digit sequence surrounded by spaces, then this should do the trick:

Find what: ^(.{9})( *)([0-9]+)( *)(.{60})$
Replace with: \1\2\4\3\5

[X] Regular expression

Note how the beginning-of-line anchor (^) and end-of-line anchor ($), together with the 9-character prefix and 60-character suffix, fix the position of the 11-character line number field.

This assumes you are using POSIX regular expression syntax:

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[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax