How to align decimal places and add blanks?

[sri1]

Hi ,

I have a dataset  as following 

   category           s1                      s2                   s3   

    a1                   2(100.0)[4]        3(100.0)[6]      15(100.0)[105]

    a2                   0                       1(33.1)[1]        1(50.0)[1]

    a3                   1(5.9)[1]            0                     0

I need as following

  category           s1                          s2                        s3   

    a1                   2  (100.0)  [4]      3  (100.0)  [6]      15  (100.0)  [105]

    a2                   0                         1  (  33.1)  [1]       1   (  50.0)   [   1]

    a3                   1  (    5.9)  [1]      0                          0

Appreciate your input

Thanks

[ballardw]

Are you going to display this with a monospace font like Courier or the SAS Monospace?

If not you are not going to be happy with the appearance because "spaces" are going to be interpreted differently depending on fonts. If you look closely at your "need" you will see that decimals between the first and second line do not align and the brackets don't either.

If the goal is to align things then have 3 separate variables/values that can have style elements attached for possible alignment.