Accept right-aligned numerics

Before submitting

• I have searched the existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet.
• I am running the latest stable version of RuboCop.

Issue type

False positive

Cop name

Layout/SpaceAroundOperators

Steps to reproduce the problem

if    a <  1 then 2
elsif a <  3 then a <▒ 4 + 20
elsif a < 10 then a < 10 +▒ 5
end

Expected behavior

Accept right-aligned numbers.

Actual behavior

Is the parser single-pass, no-look-ahead? Then this might be partially impossible.

RuboCop configuration

RuboCop version

System Version: macOS 26.5.1 (25F80)
Model Identifier: MacBookAir10,1
ruby 4.0.5 (2026-05-20 revision 64336ffd0e) +PRISM [arm64-darwin25]
rubocop     2026-06-13 377d9ed06