Honey Baked Goodness!

You know what you have to do… you have to collect all the strings for every field, keep the max length for each column, then at the end spit them back out again.

But… you need to store each field for each row and awk only supports 1 dimensional arrays… suck it up and say the script only supports up to a max of 255 fields:

BEGIN {
	row = 0
	max_fields = 0;
	super_max = 255;
} {
	for ( i = 1 ; i <= NF ; i++ ) {
		idx = row + super_max * i;
		len = length( $i );
		data[ idx ] = $i;
		if ( len > max[ i ] ) {
			max[ i ] = len;
		}
	}
	if ( NF > max_fields ) {
		max_fields= NF;
	}
	row++;
} END {
	for ( r = 0 ; r < row ; r++ ) {
		for ( i = 1 ; i <= max_fields ; i++ ) {
			idx = r + super_max * i;
			fmt = "%-" max[ i ]  "s ";
			printf( fmt , data[ idx ], max[ i ]  );
		}
		printf( "\n" );
	}
}

columnbo.awk

Here is some prettified output:

this.logger            = logger;            
this.dataSourceFactory = dataSourceFactory; 
this.wsdlUrl           = wsdlUrl;           
this.wsdlKey           = wsdlKey;           
this.documentDAO       = documentDAO;