c++ tutorial - formatted output in c++ using iomanip

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Creating cleanly formatted output is a common programming requirement--it improves your user interface and makes it easier to read any debugging messages that you might print to the screen. In C, formatted output works via the printf statement, but in C++, you can create nicely formatted output to streams such as cout. This tutorial covers a set of basic I/O manipulations possible in C++ from the iomanip header file. Note that all of the functions in the iomanip header are inside the std namespace, so you will need to either prefix your calls with "std::" or put "using namespace std;" before using the functions.