Align text to center in string C++

Question

I have been trying to make a function in C++ for a gameserver DLL which aligns given text to center before returning the new string to Lua for processing. I have spent quite

Answer 1

I'm going to assume you already know how to pass a string from Lua to C++ and return the result from C++ to Lua, so the only part we need to deal with is producing the centered string.

That, however, is pretty easy:

std::string center(std::string input, int width = 113) { 
    return std::string((width - input.length()) / 2, ' ') + input;
}