Designing A Pretty Console Output For Data

[iEpic]

I hate being a perfectionist it's driving me crazy.

I can get it to resize to the words, but when I replace them with small 3 letter words, the design messes up and everything gets out of place.

I'm a beginner and you guys are probably going to laugh at my code because I know I am making this harder than it should be, and most likely doing it completely wrong.

My main goal is to have it where I can re-use the code and only have to replace the title for each column, and it automatically make me a nice table that lines up perfect.

Here is what I have so far.

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;

double celcius(double);

int main ()
{
    double F=0, C;

    cout << "|-" << setfill('*') << setw(24) << "-|" <<endl;
    cout << setfill(' ') << setw(12) << left << "|Fahrenheit|" <<  setfill(' ');
    cout << setw(14) << right << "|Celsius |" <<  endl;
    cout << "|-" <<  setfill('*') << setw(24) << "-|" << endl;

    for (int i=0; i<=20; i++)
    {
        C = celcius(F);
        cout.precision(1);
        cout <<"|" <<  setfill(' ') << setw(7) << fixed << F <<"  { | }";
        cout << setw(7) << right << C << "   |" << endl;
            F++;
    }
    cout << "'-" << setfill('-') << setw(24) << "-'" << endl;
}
    double celcius(double F)
    {
        double temp;
        temp = ((5.0/9.0)*(F-32));
        return temp;
    }

Design

|-**********************-|
|Fahrenheit|    |Celsius |
|-**********************-|
|    0.0  { | }  -17.8   |
|    1.0  { | }  -17.2   |
|    2.0  { | }  -16.7   |
|    3.0  { | }  -16.1   |
|    4.0  { | }  -15.6   |
|    5.0  { | }  -15.0   |
|    6.0  { | }  -14.4   |
|    7.0  { | }  -13.9   |
|    8.0  { | }  -13.3   |
|    9.0  { | }  -12.8   |
|   10.0  { | }  -12.2   |
|   11.0  { | }  -11.7   |
|   12.0  { | }  -11.1   |
|   13.0  { | }  -10.6   |
|   14.0  { | }  -10.0   |
|   15.0  { | }   -9.4   |
|   16.0  { | }   -8.9   |
|   17.0  { | }   -8.3   |
|   18.0  { | }   -7.8   |
|   19.0  { | }   -7.2   |
|   20.0  { | }   -6.7   |
'------------------------'

I'm a beginner programmer and have been going at this whole thing for hours. I know you pros know some fancy tricks to get all this done a lot easier. If someone could help me it would be GREATLY appreciated! I Thanks and look forward to seeing what you guys come up with.

[iEpic]

deleted old code

[iEpic]

Finished Design
If anyone wants to use the design just replace Name1 and Name2 with what ever you want in the code.

|-**********************-|
| Name1|          |Name2 |
|-**********************-|
|    0.0  { | }  -17.8   |
|    1.0  { | }  -17.2   |
|    2.0  { | }  -16.7   |
|    3.0  { | }  -16.1   |
|    4.0  { | }  -15.6   |
|    5.0  { | }  -15.0   |
|    6.0  { | }  -14.4   |
|    7.0  { | }  -13.9   |
|    8.0  { | }  -13.3   |
|    9.0  { | }  -12.8   |
|   10.0  { | }  -12.2   |
|   11.0  { | }  -11.7   |
|   12.0  { | }  -11.1   |
|   13.0  { | }  -10.6   |
|   14.0  { | }  -10.0   |
|   15.0  { | }   -9.4   |
|   16.0  { | }   -8.9   |
|   17.0  { | }   -8.3   |
|   18.0  { | }   -7.8   |
|   19.0  { | }   -7.2   |
|   20.0  { | }   -6.7   |
'------------------------'

[nullptr]

You're conversion from Fahrenheit to Celsius isn't correct. Try:

double celsius(double F)
{
    return F*9.0/5.0 + 32;
}