help with positioning text on console

[cdkiller]

Hey I need some help with positioning text on screen. i am wondering if i have to use something like gotoxy() for this but i absolutly have no idea how to go about doing this. let me show you a sample of how i want to output the data.

Item       Batch        Price        Quantity  

1          1234         1400         100

2          1235         6200         1000

3          1238         2300         150

4          3013         1450         10

5          1701         7450         50

now the headings (Item, Batch, Price, Quantity) are static but i need to be able to start the numbers right under their heading. so i can guess that would need to use variable.size() or .length() to get the length of the longest number. each number on the list can be any value and any number of digits, within reasonable limits ofcourse. is there some sort of way i could built an invisible table or something and full the data in cells?

[Mario F.]

You can do this with manipulators like setw.
http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/iostream/iomanip/setw.html
http://www.fredosaurus.com/notes-cpp...ipulators.html
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/iomanip.html

[cdkiller]

sweet. thanks mario. i'll give them a read.