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I need to prefix a few lines of text with either 3 or 6 spaces by just using printf statement. The lines vary in lenght. One of the lines is 10 characters and needs 3 spaces before it, thus I used
printf ("%13s\n", "10chartext");
In this case I counted the lenght of the text. Is there another efficient way to achieve this to prefix the some longer text with 6 spaces sing just printf?
Thanks
It depends on what you mean by "just using printf statement". For example, I would expect that you may want to use strlen to find out the length of the string to determine the field width. Then, you might use sprintf to format the format string for use with printf :p
How do you know when to prefix by 3 and when to prefix by 6 spaces anyway?
Laserlight
I meant to say, I should be using only printf statements. The program is part of a beginning course. Of the total 6 lines, 1st, 3rd and 6th lines are to be prefixed by 3 and rest to be prefixed by 6 spaces.
Thanks
Sounds like you should check what line you are on and print extra spaces accordingly.
Quzah.
In that case, what you are doing is fine. Count the number of characters of the string yourself and set the field with to be +3 (or +6) of what you counted.
EDIT:
Yeah, this could be less tedious, i.e., do not set the field width at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by quzah
Of course you do know you can do this...
... right?Code:printf("%s%s"," ",str);
Then of course there is:Code:printf( "%*s", width, buf );
Quzah.
Do you mean:Quote:
Originally Posted by wearld97
Code:printf("%s%s\n"," "+strlen("hellow"),"hellow");
printf("%s%s\n"," "+strlen("hellowo"),"hellowo");
printf("%s%s\n"," "+strlen("hellowor"),"hellowor");
printf("%s%s\n"," "+strlen("helloworl"),"helloworl");
printf("%s%s\n"," "+strlen("helloworld"),"helloworld");