get("#515") -- splitLines

-- each input can be a string or an array of lines

-- result is as string concatenated with \n

function mergeTexts(lines1, lines2)

  if type(lines1) == 'string' then lines1 = splitLines(lines1) end

  if type(lines2) == 'string' then lines2 = splitLines(lines2) end

  local n = math.max(#lines1, #lines2)

  local w = 0

  for i=1, #lines1 do

    w = math.max(w, #(lines1[i] or ''))

  end

  local result = {}

  for i=1, n do

    local line1 = lines1[i] or ""

    local line2 = lines2[i] or ""

    table.insert(result, line1..string.rep(" ", w-#line1).." | "..line2)

  end

  return table.concat(result, "\n")

end