Exploring C++20: The Programmer's Introduction to C++

© Ray Lischner 2020

R. LischnerExploring C++20https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5961-0_8

8. Formatted Output

Ray Lischner¹ 

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Ellicott City, MD, USA

 

In Exploration 4, you used tab characters to line up output neatly. Tabs are useful but crude. This Exploration introduces some of the features that C++ offers to format output nicely, such as setting the alignment, padding, and width of output fields. C++ 20 offers two very different ways to format output. This chapter presents both, and you can choose which way you prefer.

The Problem

This Exploration begins a little differently. Instead of reading a program and answering questions about it, you must write your own program to solve a problem. The task is to print a table of squares and cubes (the arithmetic ...