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madcrazydrumma
madcrazydrumma

Reputation: 1897

'Table' doesnt format nicely when trying to print array in C++

So I'm trying to print out a table nicely with even padding like so:

int rowLength = 8 * 4 + 8 + 1;
char arr[rowLength];

fill(arr, arr + rowLength, '-');
string divider = arr;

for(int y = 0; y < 5; y++) {
    cout << "\n" << divider << "\n";
    for(int x = 0; x < 8; x++) {
        cout << "|  " << "1";
        if(x == 7)
            cout << "|";
    }
}
cout << "\n" << divider;

And I'm expecting the table to print evenly, however it prints as follows:

Image 1

Does anyone know how I can fix the print code, so it evenly prints and without the 2h at the end?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (1)

Sam Varshavchik
Sam Varshavchik

Reputation: 118445

string divider = arr;

This std::string gets constructed from arr, which is a char array that gets decayed to a char *. When constructing from a char *, the char * must be a null-terminated string.

Your code fills the entire char array with characters, but fails to append an additional '\0' byte. This results in undefined behavior.

Upvotes: 5

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