Aligning numbers with text in a table
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In the code below, the numbers all occupy 13 characters of space. How do you align the words and numbers so each word also occupies 13 characters of space like in the example below the code? 
fprintf('%.13s %.13s %.13s %.13s \n', 'a', 'yes','async','asychronous'); 
fprintf('%3.10f %3.10f %3.10f %3.10f', 33.12, 5.3819, 291.210, 39.2111); 
a                        yes                   async                  asychronous 
33.1200000000 5.3819000000 291.2100000000 39.2111000000
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 on 16 Nov 2021
        
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 on 16 Nov 2021
  
      % 13 characters and aligned to the right:
fprintf('%13s %13s %13s %13s \n', 'a', 'yes','async','asychronous');
% 13 characters and aligned to the left:
fprintf('%-13s %-13s %-13s %-13s \n', 'a', 'yes','async','asychronous'); 
fprintf('%3.10f %3.10f %3.10f %3.10f', 33.12, 5.3819, 291.210, 39.2111);
It was only the "." which is not used for the %s format.
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