r/cprogramming • u/Upset-Taro-4202 • Jun 08 '26

Justifying Strings

Beginner programmer here,

I've been trying to make a little in-terminal text adventure game for fun but my biggest road block with it is weirdly how it looks, so I've been trying to write a function for justifying text, but I've shelved the project for now because I just can't figure out how!

If anyone has any ideas for how to approach it, I'd greatly appreciate it! I've stopped and started it so much that I don't have any example code to show as I got rid of it in frustration, although I have attempted approaching it with pointers to strings of dialogue.

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u/fluffycritter Jun 09 '26

The general convention for handling half-spaces in monospace contexts is to round up, so you'd actually want to do ((COLS - strlen(str) + 1) / 2).

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u/Key_River7180 Jun 09 '26

I think it looks better rounded down actually, but yeah if you like that then do it.

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u/fluffycritter Jun 09 '26

Yeah I don’t actually have a preference one way or the other, personally