Is this possible?

[xander333]

I want to make a sort of tabel.
like:

Team 1             1 point
Team 23            3 points   

Where all the points are neatly under each other. setw() doesn't work because not all the team names are the same length

[Bazzy]

Yes, setw is there for that.
eg:

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string a="team 1", b="team 1000"; int sa = 10, sb = 1; cout << setw(10) << left << a << setw(2) << right << sa << (sa==1?" point":" points") << endl; cout << setw(10) << left << b << setw(2) << right << sb << (sb==1?" point":" points") << endl;

team 1 10 points team 1000 1 point

[xander333]

but I want them both to the right..

EDIT: found how to do it. But why in the beginning setw(10)?

[Bazzy]

It was a random number, you can make it whatever you want

[xander333]

Ok, but how does that make it work?

[Bazzy]

10 is the maximum number of characters that will be filled. It must be larger than the length of the thing you are going to print or you won't notice any change