How do I correctly organize output into columns?

Question

The first thing that comes to my mind is to do a bunch of \\t\'s, but that would cause words to be misaligned if any word is longer than any other word by a few characters.<

Answer 1

Use string formatting (from stdio) to display each line.

http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/c/io/printf

It'll let you set minimum field widths and so it will pad the rest of each field for you.