How do I correctly organize output into columns?

Question

The first thing that comes to my mind is to do a bunch of \\t\'s, but that would cause words to be misaligned if any word is longer than any other word by a few characters.<

Answer 1

Use std::setw from

e.g.

using std::cout;
using std::setw;

cout << setw(10) << "This" <<
        setw(10) << "is" <<
        setw(10) << "a" <<
        setw(10) << "test" << '\n';

Output:

      This        is         a      test