left justification using printf

[cvalenti]

I am trying to print a string of different data types, and my second column needs to be left justified. My code looks like:

printf("%15d%-3d", variable, name)

The second column keeps running into the first, so instead of columns like this:
1 7
23 16
450 125

they look like this:

17
2316
450125

If anyone has any ideas on how I can fix my formatting, problem, I would really appreciate help. Thanks.

[Shiro]

It shouldn't be "%-3d". Also add "\n" and ";". This works fine with me:

printf("%15d%15d\n", variable, name);

[biosx]

Here is some code that might help you figure it out:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{

	int num1 = 10,
	     num2 = 20,
	     num3 = 110,
	     num4 = 2250,
	     num5 = 23,
	     num6 = 23505,
	     num7 = 2,
	     num8 = 102;

	printf("%-15d %-15d\n", num1, num2);
	printf("%-15d %-15d\n", num3, num4);
	printf("%-15d %-15d\n", num5, num6);
	printf("%-15d %-15d\n", num7, num8);

	return 0;
}

The idea is to think of the maximum number of characters (or spaces) that a number will take up. So let's say the maximum number of characters an input value will be is 5 characters. To make it look nice you might want to add some padding on to that (1 or 2 spaces). Then you code it out:

printf("%-5d %-5d %-5d\n", num1, num2, num3); // 3 columns, 1 space padding

Hope that helps
Hope that helps

[Troll_King]

printf("%15d%2s%-3d", variable," ", name);

You can also use empties!