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I want to know the width (e.g., *pt) of each generated column. How can I do it?

\documentclass{article}  
\begin{document}  

I want to know the width (e.g., *pt) of each generated column. How can I do it?

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
    \hline
    Column1 & Col2 & Column------3 & Column--4 \\ \hline
    I want & to know & the actual & width of each column. \\ \hline
    Is there & any & method & to display the size? \\
    I am & now & using & \{tabular\} \{|l|l|l|l|\} \\
    \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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David Carlisle
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  • Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – jub0bs Nov 02 '13 at 08:38
  • Thanks for the reminding. I've updated the question with a code sample. – Lijie Xu Nov 02 '13 at 10:43
  • You don't really want to display the width, do you? What are you trying to do with the columns' widths? – egreg Nov 02 '13 at 11:05
  • @egreg , actually. I have several independent tables. Each of them has four columns and I want to align each column. For example, I want column 1 in table 1 has the same width with column 1 in table 2. If I know the width of columns in a specific table (which is best-fit), I can specify the width of columns of the other tables using p(**pt). – Lijie Xu Nov 02 '13 at 11:17
  • Did you see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/139771/writing-a-table-with-equally-spaced-columns-based-on-the-widest-column? – egreg Nov 02 '13 at 11:20
  • This link is different from my problem. I post the actual problem on http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/141885/how-to-align-the-columns-of-several-tables – Lijie Xu Nov 02 '13 at 11:58

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