Thread: tabular console output

Hi,

is there anything better than

Code:

"\t"

? Because it fails if the size of some table entrys differ:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <map>

int main()
{
	std::map<const char*, int> map;
	map["a"] = 1;
	map["bbbbbbbbbbbb"] = 2;
	map["ccccc"] = 3;

	for (std::map<const char*, int>::const_iterator citer = map.begin(); citer!=map.end(); ++citer)
	{
		std::cout << citer->first << "\t\t\t\t\t" << citer->second << "\n";
	}

produces:

Code:

ccccc                                   3
bbbbbbbbbbbb                                    2
a                                       1

Only ways I see is to take the current size of the field into account to determine the number of \t needed.

Thank you!