Align text to center in string C++

Question

I have been trying to make a function in C++ for a gameserver DLL which aligns given text to center before returning the new string to Lua for processing. I have spent quite

Answer 1

std::string center (const std::string& s, unsigned width)
{
    assert (width > 0);
    if (int padding = width - s.size (), pad = padding >> 1; pad > 0)
        return std::string (padding, ' ').insert (pad, s);
    return s;
}