I'm Lazy*: Top-left align my text
* and don't have a word processor
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Take several lines of input. Squash it upwards, then squash it left. Output this, with any amount of trailing newlines and spaces.
To squash upwards
For any non-space character "below" a space, swap their places, until there are no more non-space characters below spaces.
To squash left
For each line, remove all spaces.
Example:
With the input:
a b c d e
ff ggg h i
jj kk lll
Squash upwards:
afbgcgdhle
fjj gk l i
k l
Squash left:
afbgcgdhle
fjjgkli
kl
Output this text.
Finding out which academic journal requires submissions to be top-left aligned is left as an excercise for the reader.