[C++] line up output from printf()

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hello, haven't been on these forums lately.. but been tryin to learn some more into C++ since i never really "understood" the language.

anyways... i found Source Code of a packet sniffer that i want to improvise on to learn from.

*yes i'm retaining all credits lol*

so i decided to compile it after adding wsock32.lib and w2_32.lib to the linker. and first thing i noticed that i wanted to change was the line up of the data..

Screenshot of me browsing download.com

so.. my question is.. is there anyway to line up the output so it's all in nice columns that? i tried \t (tab) but it gives me a space of about 5 characters but does line it up..

heres a snip of the source code from the link above. Made by KT.

memset(&SockAddr, 0, sizeof(SockAddr));
	SockAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = iphdr->SrcIP;
	printf("Packet From: %s ", inet_ntoa(SockAddr.sin_addr));
	memset(&SockAddr, 0, sizeof(SockAddr));
	SockAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = iphdr->DstIP;
	printf("To: %s ", inet_ntoa(SockAddr.sin_addr));

Edited May 4, 2006 by Bi0haZarD

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Use width specifiers in the format string.

http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstdio/printf.html

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oohh didn't know i could do that

thanks for the link, never seen that site before *bookmarks*

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thanks for the link, never seen that site before *bookmarks*

Neither have I... first result in Google for "printf" though.

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yea didn't occur to me to just google up "printf" figured it would've been more complex lol.

anyways, think i made the final touches i wanted heres a screenshot after my changes for kicks.

basically all that was changed, was lined up the data. shows all IP Addresses associated with the local host and displays them..