Thread: Text Alignment

Hi everyone. I am trying to write a program that read the first name of the user, then the second name, and displays each name with its length under it, first aligned to the right, and then, to the left, but I am only being able to accomplish the latter. The code is the following:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main (void)
{

    char first[12];
    char last[12];

    printf("Type in yout first name:\n");
    scanf("%s", first);
    printf("Type in your last name:\n");
    scanf("%s", last);

    printf("%s %s\n", first, last);
                                                   //3rd printf in this line
    printf("%s %s\n", first, last);
    printf("%d\t %d\t\n", strlen(first), strlen(last));

    return 0;

}

How should be the third printf, in order to make the alingment to the right? I tried the following line,

Code:

printf("\t%d \t%d\n", strlen(first), strlen(last));

but the alignment wasn't complete. Thanks in advance!

Your names will be 11 characters max. If you pad the output to the max length, (both the names printf and the lengths printf), via printf formatting controls, this will be a snap. printf formatting controls can also be used to control justification.