Escape sequence in terminal or iTerm to jump to absolute column?
You can use \r to return to the beginning of the line (column 1) and then \e[nC to move right n characters (column n+1). So:

$ echo 12345678901234567890; echo $'\r\e[9CA10' $'\r\e[1CB2'
12345678901234567890
 B2      A10