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Zesa Rex
Zesa Rex

Reputation: 482

C++ pre-formatted text output for CMD?

I am trying to pimp up the programs I wrote with fancy ASCII-Art, I can't manage to display it on the console though, is there a way I can output pre-formatted text, just as <pre> in HTML? I am using cout for most output.

 _____           _   
|_   _|         | |  
  | |  ___  ___ | |_ 
  | | / _ \/ __|| __|
  | ||  __/\__ \| |_ 
  \_/ \___||___/ \__|

Upvotes: 1

Views: 689

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 63124

Use raw string literals:

std::string const asciiTest = R"~(
 _____           _   
|_   _|         | |  
  | |  ___  ___ | |_ 
  | | / _ \/ __|| __|
  | ||  __/\__ \| |_ 
  \_/ \___||___/ \__|
)~";

Within a RSL you don't need to escape special characters, and newlines are preserved.
This is a double-edged sword though: identation and leading/trailing newlines are also preserved, so you need to take care of them.

Upvotes: 4

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