How to center-align text in a terminal?

Question

I want my text to be horizontally centered in the terminal. How can I do this in C?

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FredN Feb 17 13 at 14:06

3 answers

If you are working with bash use an environment variable COLUMNS

to get the width and calculate the center.

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eyalm Feb 17 At 14:15

If you are lazy, how can I write all this code, this is a simple solution.

 Console.WriteLine("                  Hello World");
 Console.ReadLine();

Add more space if needed to the center lol

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TheBoringGuy Apr 18 At 4:44 am

user529758 · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-17T14:21:42+0000

To expand on @eyalm's answer: if you got COLUMNS

var, you can center the lines like this:

int columns = strtol(getenv("COLUMNS"), NULL, 10);
int fwidth = strlen(s) + (columns - strlen(s)) / 2;
printf("%*s\n", fwidth, s);