Infer Column Widths of a Fixed-Width Text File

A fixed-width file use a fixed column width for each column (though not all columns necessarily have the same width) and pads the remaining space on the left or on the right, usually with spaces:

   287540 Smith  Jones  Accountant         $55,000
   204878 Ross   Betsy  Senior Accountant  $66,000
   208417 Arthur Wilbur CEO               $123,000

Parsing a fixed-width file can be difficult. Either, the user has to know the column widths in advance and pass that to a parsing method, or the method has to infer the widths of the columns.

This package Go propose automated infer the columns.

Example

github.com/davidburil/fixedwidth-example

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Project inspired by blog post at dev.to