{"id":19305,"date":"2024-03-15T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-output-default-field-width-in-cout-in-c\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:23:01","slug":"how-to-output-default-field-width-in-cout-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-output-default-field-width-in-cout-in-c\/","title":{"rendered":"How to output default field width in cout in C++?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In C++, you can use the setw() function to set the default field width of cout. Located in the <iomanip> header file, setw() takes an integer parameter to set the field width. For example, the following code sets the default field width of cout to 10 characters:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;iostream&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;iomanip&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-function\"><span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> <\/span>{\r\n    std::cout &lt;&lt; std::<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">setw<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-number\">10<\/span>) &lt;&lt; <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Hello\"<\/span> &lt;&lt; std::endl;\r\n    std::cout &lt;&lt; std::<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">setw<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-number\">10<\/span>) &lt;&lt; <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"World\"<\/span> &lt;&lt; std::endl;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Output result:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>     Hello\r\n     World\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, setw(10) sets the default field width of cout to 10 characters, so the output string is filled in a field with a width of 10 characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In C++, you can use the setw() function to set the default field width of cout. 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