Question

How To Print Nice Padding Character in a String in C++?

1. User input the width = 14

2. User input the padding character = +

Example output:

++Hello World++

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

CODE

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() {

string input;

cout << "Enter the sentence: ";

getline(cin, input);

int width;

cout << "Enter the width: ";

cin >> width;

char padding;

cout << "Enter the padding character: ";

cin >> padding;

int paddingLength = (width - input.size() + 1) / 2;

for (int i=0; i<paddingLength; i++) {

cout << padding;

}

cout << input;

for (int i=0; i<paddingLength; i++) {

cout << padding;

}

return 0;

}