How to set the width of the last column with tabular package?

Question

I want to generate a table with fixed column width. This works for all the columns except for the last column.

Working example (fixed column width for all column except the last one)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{grade.csv}
    name,givennamex,matriculation,gender,grade
    Maier,Hans,12348,m,1.0
    Huber,Anna,23456,f,2.3
    Weisbaeck,Werner,34567,m,5.0
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}
    \begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|c}%
        \bfseries long title column 1 & \bfseries long title column 2 & \bfseries long title column 3% specify table head
        \csvreader[head to column names]{grade.csv}{}% use head of csv as column names
        {\\\hline\givennamex & \name & \matriculation}% specify your columns here
    \end{tabular}
\end{document}

Example with problem (fixed column width for all column including the last one)


\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{grade.csv}
    name,givennamex,matriculation,gender,grade
    Maier,Hans,12348,m,1.0
    Huber,Anna,23456,f,2.3
    Weisbaeck,Werner,34567,m,5.0
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}
    \begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}}%
        \bfseries long title column 1 & \bfseries long title column 2 & \bfseries long title column 3% specify table head
        \csvreader[head to column names]{grade.csv}{}% use head of csv as column names
        {\\\hline\givennamex & \name & \matriculation}% specify your columns here
    \end{tabular}
\end{document}

What can I do to set the width of the last column?

EDIT

After the comments below I added the package ragged2e and changed the first line

\begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}}%

to this one

\begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|m{2cm}}%

Overall, the code is now the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\begin{filecontents*}{grade.csv}
    name,givennamex,matriculation,gender,grade
    Maier,Hans,12348,m,1.0
    Huber,Anna,23456,f,2.3
    Weisbaeck,Werner,34567,m,5.0
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}
    \begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|m{2cm}}%
        \bfseries long title column 1 & \bfseries long title column 2 & \bfseries long title column 3% specify table head
        \csvreader[head to column names]{grade.csv}{}% use head of csv as column names
        {\\\hline\givennamex & \name & \matriculation}% specify your columns here
    \end{tabular}
\end{document}

There is still one Problem: I cannot set the last column as centered (I tried to write >{\raggedright}m{2cm} instead of m{2cm} but it doesn't work).

use >{\raggedright \arraybackslash} in the last column, or use \tabularnewline instead of \\ to terminate the lines. — Ulrike Fischer, Jul 04 '19 at 07:25
Related:How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft? — leandriis, Jul 04 '19 at 07:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '19 at 07:48

To summarize the comment by Ulrike Fischer: here are three possibilites:

Use >{\raggedright\arraybackslash} instad of >{\raggedright}.
Define your own column type with \newcolumntype to avoid repeaded typing of the cde meintioned in 1.
Use \tabularnewline instead of \\ to end a line in the table.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{#1}}

\begin{filecontents*}{grade.csv}
    name,givennamex,matriculation,gender,grade
    Maier,Hans,12348,m,1.0
    Huber,Anna,23456,f,2.3
    Weisbaeck,Werner,34567,m,5.0
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}}%
        \bfseries long title column 1 & \bfseries long title column 2 & \bfseries long title column 3% specify table head
        \csvreader[head to column names]{grade.csv}{}% use head of csv as column names
        {\\\hline\givennamex & \name & \matriculation}% specify your columns here
\end{tabular}

\bigskip

\begin{tabular}{R{2cm}|R{2cm}|R{2cm}}%
        \bfseries long title column 1 & \bfseries long title column 2 & \bfseries long title column 3% specify table head
        \csvreader[head to column names]{grade.csv}{}% use head of csv as column names
        {\\\hline\givennamex & \name & \matriculation}% specify your columns here
\end{tabular}

\bigskip

\begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright}m{2cm}| >{\raggedright}m{2cm}}%
        \bfseries long title column 1 & \bfseries long title column 2 & \bfseries long title column 3% specify table head
        \csvreader[head to column names]{grade.csv}{}% use head of csv as column names
        {\tabularnewline\hline\givennamex & \name & \matriculation}% specify your columns here
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

many thanks for your answer @leandriis. However, how can I do so the last column ist then centered and not align on the right / left (cf. last comment in the question) — ecjb, Jul 05 '19 at 13:07
To horizontally center the last column replace \begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}} in the first table by \begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}|>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{2cm}|>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{2cm}} — leandriis, Jul 06 '19 at 15:41

How to set the width of the last column with tabular package?

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