Aligning The Output

[sugarboy]

I have been playing around today with sockets, just to build up some experience with them before I move on to something else so I set up a xml document on my web server with a few lines of code. Then socket than retrieves the information from within that document and displays them like such.

Cigarettes: Newport

Music: Electro/House

Drink: Jager

 

(Just some random values Lol.)

What I am trying to do is make the values like Newport, Electro/House, & Jager align with each other. So it would look a more organized I guess you would say. Kinda like this

I tried inserting extra spaces between the static text of the echo and the variable(which would be newport, electro/house, & Jager) but that doesn't seem to work much.

 

Can anyone suggest to me a possible way to achieve this? I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Also if it helps this is basically what I am using for the echo.

if ($regex(%temp,/<cigarettes>(.*)</cigarettes>/)) {
  echo -a Cigarettes: $regml(1)
}

[Guest Zantetsuken]

set them as %vars then once your done reading from the socket or on sockclose have them echo like..

 

Cigarettes: %var1

Music: %var2

Drink: %var3

 

only way i can think of off hand

 

 

woops, read what you wanted wrong lol.. you'll prolly need a font that aligns proper, like Lucida Console etc.. then calc the len of the text then add or subtract some chr 160's etc lol, lot of work or try the spaces dll

Edited December 19, 2010 by Zantetsuken

[sugarboy]

Thanks mate. That did the trick.

[Guest Travis]

You can make the window a listbox and seperate it with columns (-t).

 

/help /window

 

Seperate the columns with $chr(9). Column1 $chr(9) Column2 $chr(9) Column3.