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You have a challenge to input the above mentioned data and print the data as it shown.

Input pid4. +1 pname$6. +4 team $6. +1 hit3. +4wt2. ;

+1 1 no of space it jump. But you think how it decides to jump 1 space. For variable PNAME length
of the string is 6 so we used 6. as width method . Starting column of the string is 6 and the previous
variable PID ends at column no 4.

N=Starting column of the string-previous variable column number-1
Here as per formula we get 1. So we used +1.
Program 3.8:

Output:

Column pointer width method
@n Go to nth column number
th
If we take @6 Go to 6 column number

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