Better spacing issues

Hi guys

I am working on some homework at the moment but im not stuck on a logial problem. The program is working absolutly fine and the output is just what is required.

My issue comes with the spacing of the output. I am using a 2 dimensional array and the columns are not lined up with the headers. I am using setw() to ensure I get good spacing of each column in the output but they keep going off balance dispite various attempts to change the value of setw().

I have heard of std::left and was wondering if this could help my spacing issues on this occasion. Here is my code, this is uncompleted so excuse the lack of comments.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

// main function - driver //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
int main ( void )
{
   const int SALES_PERSON = 4; // rows
   const int SALES_ITEMS = 5; // columns
   
   int salesNumber = 1;
   
   int sales[ SALES_PERSON ][ SALES_ITEMS ] = {{ 0, 0 }};
    
   for ( int i = 0; i < SALES_PERSON; )
   {
      for ( int j = 0; j < SALES_ITEMS; j++ )
      {  
         std::cout << "Enter sales total for item " << j 
                   << " for salesman number " << i << " : ";
         std::cin >> sales[ i ][ j ];
      }
      i++;
   }
   
   // table headers
   std::cout << "\n\nSalesman" << std::setw( 12 ) << "Prod 1" << std::setw( 12 ) 
             << "Prod 2" << std::setw( 12 ) << "Prod 3" << std::setw( 12 )
             << "Prod 4" << std::setw( 12 ) << "Prod 5" << "\n\n";
             
   for ( int i = 0; i < SALES_PERSON; i++ )
   {
      for ( int j = 0; j < SALES_ITEMS; j++ )
         std::cout << salesNumber << std::setw( 14 ) << sales[ i ][ j ];
         std::cout << std::endl;
         salesNumber++;
   }
   
   std::cin.get(); // freeze console output window
   std::cin.ignore();
   
   return 0; // return value from int main
}

I am using setw() to ensure I get good spacing of each column in the output but they keep going off balance dispite various attempts to change the value of setw().

What do you expect setw to do? To my understanding you should print each item with the same field-width as the caption (right or left-aligned as you like).

Well, your headers are in columns of 8-12-12-12-12 (the 8 comes from "Salesman"), while your data is printed out in columns of 1-14-1-14-1-14-1-14. (Note that salesNumber gets printed out for each column!)