can't get setw to line up

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I'm not sure how to go about lining this up better. I thought by using L = name.length(); and subtracting that from the setw it would line up better but nope. I have name and ID set correctly but I can't seem to get the rest to line up. These are floats btw.

for (int z=0; z<i ;z++){

  if( EInfo[z].valid >0){

    string name = employee[z].getName();
    int L = name.length();

    payReportObj << fixed << setprecision (2)  <<  endl;

      payReportObj  << setw(3) << employee[z].getID()
                  << setw(36)
                  << employee[z].getName()
                  << setw(30-L) << "$" << setw(4) << EInfo[z].grossPaySE
                  << setw(25) << "$" << setw(4) << EInfo[z].taxSE
                  << setw(15) << "$" << setw(4) << EInfo[z].insuranceSE
                  << setw(25) << "$" << setw(4) << EInfo[z].netPaySE;

I'm attempting to get it more like this... Want I'm trying to go for

This is what I have...

Could you provide an example of the way you want the data to be lay out? — ctor, Dec 15 '12 at 11:31
If this is indeed not a monospaced font, you can try using tab characters to line up the columns. — nimrodm, Dec 15 '12 at 13:00

Leonid Volnitsky · Answer 1 · 2012-12-15T15:53:52.167

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Replace setw(30-L) with setw(30). And this:

int L = name.length();

is not needed. If you want to right-align numbers, use std::right.

It seams that you opened your output file in nodepad with proportional font. You won't see columns aligned with proportional font even if they are. Change font to fixed or type in your terminal type output.txt.

edited Dec 15 '12 at 15:53

answered Dec 15 '12 at 15:13

Leonid Volnitsky

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