Text Alignment

[LoveTractor]

Hi everyone,
I'm working on a programming assignment and I need a little help. In the code below I've had to manually type in spaces to get everything to line up. Although this works, it is getting somewhat tedious to make it fit. Is there another way to do this?

Thanks

printf("Nonexistent Airlines -- Flights for 21 Sep 2010\n");
printf("\n");
printf("Depature Time Arrival Time\n");
printf("====================================\n");






return 0;

[msh]

For console output, there '\t' for tab, and field widths for format specifiers in printf() and scanf(). That's as good as it will get for you.

[Jorl17]

There's probably an easier way to do it, but I couldn't find it.

refer to: C-equivalent of the 'setw' function - efreedom which looks for a C version of the std::setw function found in C++. Also refer to Commonly Asked C/c++ 2 - Discuss Anything (point 2.2)

printf("Depature Time%52s\n", "Arrival Time");

That is my, probably not ideal, solution. Notice that %52s denotes %<number of spaces + length of string>s.

Someone with a better idea or corrections, please speak!

[msh]

Might as well...

printf( "%-20s%20s\n", "Departure Time", "Arrival Time" );

[Adak]

Thiis is the printing code, with the aligned output. Should give you some idea's:

  printf("\n\nName                Sex  ID  Ratings\n");
  printf("====================================");

  for(i=0;i<count;i++) {
    printf("\n%-19s  %c  %2d ", names[i].name, names[i].sex, names[i].id);
    for(j=0;ratings[i][j]>0;j++) {
      printf("  %d", ratings[i][j]);
    }
  }

  fclose(fp);
  free(names);
  printf("\n\n\t\t\t    press enter when ready");
  i=getchar();
  return 0;
}  
//Output:

groups: 2  each: 3

Name                Sex  ID  Ratings
====================================
Adam                 M   1   4  8  7
Bob                  M   2   6  7  5
Carl                 M   3   5  9  6
Diana                F   4   7  6  8
Ellen                F   5   6  5  9
Fran                 F   6   4  7  3

			    press enter when ready

[LoveTractor]

Awesome! I'll play around with these suggestions and see if I can get it to work.
Thanks