"\t" not working properly

[DyslexicChciken]

Sometimes when I use "\t" to space things, it will skip certain elements, i.e. the tab character won't appear for some cout.

For example:

void print()

	{ 

		cout << '(' << x << ',' << y << ')' << "\t";

	}

for(int i=0; i<50; i++)

	{

		a[i].print();


		if(i==37)

			cout << "\t";


		if(((i+1)%5)==0)

			cout << "\n";



	}

If I didn't include this statement:

if(i==37)

	cout << "\t";

There won't be a "\t" character after I print the 37th element, even though the void print function says to tab after every coordinate (x,y). Anyone know what's going on?

[xismn]

It would help to know what a is, and what its print() method is.

[giblit]

If you are using a[i] to call the print function you probably aren't calling

void print()

	{ 

		cout << '(' << x << ',' << y << ')' << "\t";

	}

void print function

It is just a normal function with a return type of void and a function name of print. There is no such thing as a void function. It is a function which happens to return nothing(void).

Also '\t' is a single character. Though I would suggest cout << '(' << x << ',' << y << ")\t" The error you probably get is it goes out of bounds and goes to next line from overflow. I would just output a new line after each one instead of a tab. Or maybe more often than every 5th.