Originally posted by Imran Bhutta:
if u want to make like a chart ... you would use \t right?
Yes and no. It depends on the output device (terminal I assume here), but typically \t stops are set every eight columns. There's no guarantee, however. As well, what happens if one column will contain four to ten characters. That means sometimes the next column won't be straight from line to line.
If you're not too worried about that, yes \t will do what you want. If you need to be really anal about the table, you can make your own columns by outputing enough spaces to fill the column out. Here's a simple example:
[ November 07, 2004: Message edited by: David Harkness ]