Simple cout formatting question.

Hello everyone:

I have an output formatting question for C++,

I am writing a program that outputs movie names, the genre, and the categorie


IT currently looks like cout << movie << "\t\t\t" << cat << "\t\t\t" << genre;

i've tried also using the setw(X);, but it produced the same problem.

Display:
Ice Age ........................ cat ........................... gen
Saving Private ryan ........................... cat ........................... gen
Doge Ball .................... cat ........................... gen

Is there a way to get it to be:
Title .............................. Categorie................... genre

Ice age ........................... cat ........................... gen
Saving Private Ryan ........ cat ........................... gen
Doge Ball ........................ cat ........................... gen

this is all dynamic, I just need all the information to be aligned. (names will be changing, categories changing, and genres changin)

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main() {
  cout << setw(25) << left << "Movie" <<  setw(25) << left
        << "Category" << "Genre\n" << endl;
  cout << setw(25) << left << "My Movie" <<  setw(25) << left
        << "Its Category" << "Its Genre" << endl;
  cout << setw(25) << left << "My Longer Movie" <<  setw(25) << left
        << "Its Longer Category" << "Its Longer Genre" << endl;
  return 0;
}

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main() {
  cout << setw(25) << left << "Movie" <<  setw(25) << left
        << "Category" << "Genre\n" << endl;
  cout << setw(25) << left << "My Movie" <<  setw(25) << left
        << "Its Category" << "Its Genre" << endl;
  cout << setw(25) << left << "My Longer Movie" <<  setw(25) << left
        << "Its Longer Category" << "Its Longer Genre" << endl;
  return 0;
}

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sry, but I don't get it: whats this << left thing?

left means left justified

http://www.cppreference.com/io_flags.html

Thanks for the help guys, it worked really well!