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I am in a situation in which it seems desirable to use multiple tabularx environments to feign a single one. But I would like for the contents of their right-most columns to be flush left with each other. That is, is there a way to adjust the code below so that, of the words 'Yessir,' 'Yessirino,' and 'Ya-huh,' the one with the greatest width (namely 'Yessirino') is automatically chosen to establish a common width for the right-most column in each of the three tabularx environments?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{showframe}

\begin{document}


\centering


\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{r >$r<$ @{} >{\raggedright${}}X<{$} l}


Yes & Yes & Yes & Yessir


\end{tabularx}


\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{r >$r<$ @{} >{\raggedright${}}X<{$} l}


Yes & Yes & Yes & Yessirino


\end{tabularx}


\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{r >$r<$ @{} >{\raggedright${}}X<{$} l}


Yes & Yes & Yes & Ya-huh


\end{tabularx}


\end{document}

(Note: If you would like a partial explanation as to why I would like to use multiple tabularx environments to feign a single one, see David Carlisle's answer to a previous question of mine at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/693585/277990. This, however, is probably not essential to my question.)

Noah J
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Do you after the following:

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Vertical line before last column is added that it is better visible equal width of last columns in all tables. In the real document you can remove it.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newlength\colwidth
\usepackage{showframe}

\begin{document}


\begingroup



\centering
\settowidth\colwidth{Yessirino} % <--- select the longest text in the last columns
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{r >{$}r<{$} @{} >{\raggedright${}}X<{$} | p{\colwidth}}
Yes & Yes & Yes & Yessir
\end{tabularx}


\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{r >{$}r<{$} @{} >{\raggedright${}}X<{$} | p{\colwidth}}
Yes & Yes & Yes & Yessirino
\end{tabularx}


\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{r >{$}r<{$} @{} >{\raggedright${}}X<{$} | p{\colwidth}}
Yes & Yes & Yes & Ya-huh
\end{tabularx}
    \endgroup


\end{document}
Zarko
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  • Is there a reason for \begingroup and \endgroup? If I get rid of them the output does not change. – Noah J Aug 21 '23 at 16:33
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    @NoahJ, by group I limit setting the \colwidth to those tables only (and by this enable to make a different settings for another tables, if needed). If in your document this is not a case, you remove it. – Zarko Aug 21 '23 at 18:15