rightAlign columns

[Ray G. Miller]

Hello listers,
This a problem that I'm sure many of you have solved:

Right-aligning a column of numbers  in a mixed aligned field, such as:
Cheeseburger	pretty good	5.78
Tacos		yucky		3.78
T-bone Steak	yummy		10.67	

(not that you'd ever see T-bone on a menu for 10.67 ;-))

Padding with leading spaces is quite unsatisfactory-- commas and decimal
points really mess-up the alignment, especially in a non-mono font.

What we need (nudge, nudge Scott) is a tab property like:
15,!r100,!L108,!r220

where the "!r" would align right
the "!L" aligns left
and "!c" aligns center.

Thanks
Ray
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