Having some trouble formatting output

[Xilonian]

My program has a few values it out puts on different lines using a loop. Basically each line needs to look like:

Name                Goals      Assists      Points     Rating
John Smith            7          8            15         +2 
John Doe              2          4            6          +1          
Jonathon Jones        0          0            0           0

Instead my output looks like:

Name                Goals      Assists      Points     Rating
John Smith            7          8            15         +2 
John Doe            2          4            6          +1          
Jonathon Jones            0          0            0           0

I can use setw and get even spacing on the numbers but because the names are different lengths setw is not an option.

Here is my code for the output:

	for(i=1; i<=numPlayers; i++)
	{	 
		cout<<players[i].name<<std::setw(12) <<players[i].goals<<std::setw(8)<<players[i].assists<<std::setw(8)<<points[i]<<std::setw(8)<<players[i].rating<<endl;
	}

[Chervil]

but because the names are different lengths setw is not an option

On the contrary. Because the names are different lengths, you need to use setw() for the names too.

[Xilonian]

Im using a loop to output all the data so i can't use it. Also the names are char arrays (not by choice) so I cant determine the length.

[Chervil]

Whether or not you use a loop doesn't affect the problem.
You could find the length of the name if you needed to, using strlen().

But none of that really matters.

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std; 

int main()
{
    const char * names[3] = {
        "John Smith", 
        "John Doe",
        "Jonathon Jones"
    };

    for (int i=0; i<3; i++)
    {
        cout << setw(20) << left << names[i] << setw(4) << right << i << endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

Output:

John Smith             0
John Doe               1
Jonathon Jones         2

[Xilonian]

Got it to work! Thanks for the help.