Formatting Functions

[made_of_asp]

Is there are format function in C++? I need to line up a character array to the left and save to a variable.

e.g.

format("Hi", " @@@@@@@") = " Hi";
format("Bye"," @@@@@@@") = " Bye";

Thanks for any help

[kedaman]

There's no format function in C++, but theres a variety of string functions to deal with character arrays, you can for instance do it as follows:

char* a= "Hi";
char c[10] = "        ";
strcpy(c+10-strlen(a),a); 

here's documentation on the string functions
http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstring/index.html

[jim mcnamara]

Look at the format modules in the attached code

[made_of_asp]

Thanks for your replies

Those work:8

[CornedBee]

If there is no format function, then what is sprintf? Only because it's C that doesn't mean it's bad.

Else look at stringstreams, they are very useful.

[MoMad]

yes:

sprintf(str, "%-30s", "Hi"); // right align a string