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Originally Posted by kenvin100
oh yeah..so basically wat i learned so far are if statements and loops (and delcaring stuff of course)
Assuming you want to right align things on the console, you can play around with the length of the strings as follows.
Suppose you want the prices to appear at 60 spaces from the left of the console
For each item, you get the length of the item's name using the method you were give above.
int l = item.length();
Then you get how many spaces you need to add using
int
spaces = 60 - l;
So when printing item item1 and its price, You print the item name, then you print
spaces spaces, then you print the item's price and go to the next line. If you do this for all the items, you will always get the prices aligned 60 spaces form the left of the screen assuming the names of the items are not more than 60 characters long
