Setting the Width for Numbers

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Setting the width for integer family and floating-point family data types must be done for the output of each value. Assume in the following example that age is an integer data type and money is a floating-point data type.

cout «  setw(4) «  age «  endl; cout «  setw(8) «  money «  endl; 

Note that each value had to have its own setw(n) where n is an integer number telling it how many positions to use for the output. The iomanip header file (immediately shown) will need to be included in your program.

#include<iomanip>  // needed for the setw