Question

I am faced with a rather large text file (200-400 lines)

The file displays a lot of data however the problem is that it is not lined up.
The data at the moment resembles this

Column1    Column2    Column3    Column4
Bobby      Fisher    Virginia    Rural
Willis     Johnson    Oklahoma    City
Ryan       Polk    Nevada    Suburban
Bruno      Garfield   Orgeon    Rural

The file uses a set number of spaces between each entry, which causes the problem.
Is there a way to possible break this up and for each word allow X amount of spaces, and if it is shorter fill in the space with spaces?

My only thought at the moment would be to pull each line from the text file and then pull each word.

Is there an easier way or am I just in a pretty big pickle?

Most of you all can guess what the end product will look like but here it is

Column1    Column2    Column3    Column4
Bobby      Fisher     Virginia   Rural
Willis     Johnson    Oklahoma   City
Ryan       Polk       Nevada     Suburban
Bruno      Garfield   Orgeon     Rural

Answer 1

Does this do what you need?

Array.ConvertAll(lines, _
    Function(cells) _
        String.Concat( _
            Array.ConvertAll(cells.Split(), Function(s) s.Trim().PadRight(40))))