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From: [e-mail] (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Easiest way to center a string?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:54:33 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA
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In article <[e-mail]>,
Robert B. Clark <[e-mail]> wrote:
)On 12 Feb 1996 21:31:54 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:
)
)>  I'm learning C, and one of my assignments requires that the output strings be
)>centered on the screen. Is there a simple way of doing this that I have overlooked?
)
)Compute the left column by subtracting half of the string length from
)half of the screen width; e.g.,
)
)    x=MAXCOL / 2 - strlen(str) / 2;
)
)where MAXCOL is the maximum number of columns available to you (text
)mode DOS, 80 columns).  'x' will be the column in which you should start
)printing your string.
)
)You didn't mention which platform you're compiling for, so I leave the
)details of cursor positioning to you.  If you're on a DOS machine, look
)up gotoxy().
)--
)Robert B. Clark <[e-mail]>
)"Be wary of strong spirits.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors...
)and miss." --RAH


Please do =not= use this code as it stands. It may do terrible things to
your screen if the string does not fit into the field. Always check for
fits before using such techniques.

Mike
----
char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}

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