Thread: setw question

how can I set a text on the right hand of "setw" to be left justified ???
below the code I'm using

CODE:
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cout<<setw(20)<<A_String<<endl;

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what I would like is to have the "A_String" variable to be outputed left justified instead of right justified.....
I,ve alredy had a look on MSN but still didn't got it.... can someone please post a short example here or just point me the right direction, so that I can look for it.
Thanks....

Code:

cout << setw(20) <<  left << A_String << endl;

I've tryed it alredy but it gives me undeclared identifier..... am I forgetting some header ???

OK... I belive I found out how to put it to work... I just added "using namespace std:" to my code and now the compiler is not complaning about this line of code, nevertheless is now complaning about a "ifstream" and a ofstream" that I have and were working fine before.... please.... help.....

CODE:
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ifstream source("Header.txt");
source.getline(var1, 30);

UpdateData(true);

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and the error is " 'ifstream' : anbiguos symbol "

ok guys... I finally got it.

I end up removing the using namespace std and adjusting the previous code to look like this

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setw(20)<<setiosflags(ios::left)<<A_variable<<endl ;

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and finally it's working... but the guy that made MSN is responsible for a bunch of my gray hair..... I wonder if they made it so confused and without proper examples to drive us crazy or to stimulate our inventive capabilities :-)
Thanks for your suport guys...

Might you have possibly been mixing headers, i.e. those with/without the ".h" extensions? Also, left may require you to have included <iomanip>

YEAP..... I belive that was my problem, I started programming again for fun a year or so ago and I still mix up the headers like hell and ten years ago, when I had to study C++ in college I was using borland C++ wich I remeber having a very good help resources regarding this issue..... now, I never know if I should put "iostream.h" or <iostream.h> or <iostream> ..... I guess pratctice make perfection, I just need to practice more often.

onca again thanks for the support.