Wrapping Text
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I am writing a console-based text-only game that have some very long descriptions. I am new to C++ and I wanted to know how to move the whole word to the next line when it doesn't fit instead of just part of the word. Would it be easier to write it in an application window? If so, how would I do that? Thanks for your help.
To my knowledge, you're going to need to do it yourself. The process is pretty much that you'll have to keep track of how much is left on the line and the length of the next word. Check if word > space left. If true, reset line counter to line width, newline and print word; else print word, subtract word length from space left.
As to finding the screen width... I've no idea.
As to finding the screen width... I've no idea.
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I understand what you're saying, but how would I go about coding that. I'm a real newb in C++, and basically the only things I can do are use cout and cin, declare variables and such, and call functions. I really appreciate any further help.
#include <iostream>#include <string.h>using namespace std;void wrapPrint(char* str, int maxwidth){ // seps holds the charactors which denote the seperation of 2 words char seps[] = " "; char* token; int currentpos = 0; // loop while we still have words to print token = strtok(str, seps); while(token) { // if this word is too big if(currentpos + strlen(token) > maxwidth) { cout << endl; currentpos = strlen(token); } else { cout << " "; currentpos += strlen(token) + 1; } cout << token; token = strtok(NULL, seps); } cout << flush;}void main(void){ char text[] = "I am writing a console-based text-only game that have some very long descriptions. I am new to C++ and I wanted to know how to move the whole word to the next line when it doesn't fit instead of just part of the word. Would it be easier to write it in an application window? If so, how would I do that? Thanks for your help."; wrapPrint(text, 40);}P.S. Make sure that your strings a null terminated, or if you are using std::string, just do this:
std::string str = "something with spaces";wrapPrint(str.c_str(), maxwidth);hope that helps!
Here's another approach:
void print_width( char const * str, int width ) { // how much is there to print? int len = strlen( str ); while( len >= width ) { // it's invariant that len is the length of string remaining assert( strlen( str ) == len ); // fit as much as we can, but break at a space or hyphen char const * end = str + width - 1; while( *end != ' ' && *end != '-' && end > str ) { --end; } // if there's no space or hyphen at all, print whole line if( end == str ) { end = str + len - 1; } // make sure the space/hyphen is included ++end; // actually output fwrite( str, 1, end-str, stdout ); fwrite( "\n", 1, 1, stdout ); // update to point at start of next line len -= (end - str); str = end; } // print any stragglers assert( strlen( str ) == len ); if( *str ) { fwrite( str, 1, len, stdout ); fwrite( "\n", 1, 1, stdout ); }}Note that a really good word-breaker would collapse multiple spaces at line breaks into just the line break; this one doesn't do that (but does, on average, pretty well).
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