cout manipulation

[mar11]

Hi all,

i have the following example for manipulation the output

cout <<"*** the value"<< setw (10)<<"okay"<<endl;
cout <<"******* the value"<< setw (10)<<"okay"<<endl;

and i get this output:

*** the value okay
******* the value okay

my question is, how can i manipulate the cout to get the output something like that:

*** the value okay
******* the value okay

that means i need to count from the begin of the line and not from the end of the first string ...

thanks for each support

[whodgson]

Do you have <iomanip> or <iomanip.h> included?

[mar11]

yes...

i mean, i want to get the output at this way... again, i need to count from the begin of the line and not from the end of the first string ...

*** the value                      okay
******* the value                  okay
 

[mar11]

is this quetion realy difficult to answer :(

[weaknessforcats]

It would help if:

*** the value
******* the value

were the same length. You might use a set manipulator to set the fields width for this data. The set(10) in your example is for okay only.

Or, create a string with this data in it and pad spaces to the right so that the string when displayed is always the same length.