aranging C prog output into columns

hey there, i'm currently trying to produce a program and output data in the following format:

http://www.inaudible.co.uk/temp/coutput.gif

apparently i have to get the output as close to that as possible, but i don't know any other ways of printing stuff out other than just text and spaces, or using \t, but if i use either of those then whenever the length of a bane ir weight changes then the text to the right of it is gonna get unaligned.

the best way i can think of is counting the words/numbers in one bit of data (name/weight) then adding the correct number of spaces after it to line the following data up.

is there any easier way of laying stuff out like in the example?

You can use formatting identifiers in printf (http://www.phim.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/FUNCTIONS/format.html) (check out the minimum field width). If you're using C++'s cout there is something similar for it too.

shmoove

thanks, that works great :thumbsup: a center align would be nice though :p