Solution for Rosetta Code : Align columns

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Summary

This solution uses a separate function to calculate each width of the columns according to the maximum word length in each column.

const testArr = [
  "Given$a$text$file$of$many$lines,$where$fields$within$a$line$",
  "are$delineated$by$a$single$'dollar'$character,$write$a$program",
  "that$aligns$each$column$of$fields$by$ensuring$that$words$in$each$",
  "column$are$separated$by$at$least$one$space.",
  "Further,$allow$for$each$word$in$a$column$to$be$either$left$",
  "justified,$right$justified,$or$center$justified$within$its$column."
];

let formatText = (input, justification) => {
  // Assuming here that any leading or trailing delimiters are wanted.
  input = input.map(row => row.split('$'));
  const COLUMNWIDTH = getColumnWidths(input);
  let justifiedText = '';

  // Iterate through each row and add padding according to each column width.
  for(let row in input) {
    if(row > 0) {
      justifiedText += '\n';
    }
    for(let column in input[row]) {
      const WORD = input[row][column];
      const PADDING = 1 + COLUMNWIDTH[column] - WORD.length;
      if(justification === 'left') {
        justifiedText += WORD + ' '.repeat(PADDING) + ' ';
      }
      else if (justification === 'right') {
        justifiedText += ' '.repeat(PADDING - 1) + WORD + '  ';
      }
      else if (justification === 'center') {
        justifiedText += ' '.repeat(Math.floor(PADDING / 2)) + WORD + ' '.repeat(Math.ceil(PADDING / 2)) + ' ';
      }
    }
  }
  return justifiedText;
}

const getColumnWidths = (textArray) => {
  let columnWidths = [];
  textArray.forEach(
    row => {
      if (row.length > columnWidths.length) {
        columnWidths = columnWidths.concat(
          new Array(row.length - columnWidths.length).fill(0)
        );
      }

      for(let column in row) {
        if(row[column].length > columnWidths[column]) {
          columnWidths[column] = row[column].length;
        }
      }
    }
  )

  return columnWidths;
}

Challenge: Align columns

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Thank you so much I was struggling