Is there a function to align string with spaces or special character?

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EDIT: This is A duplicate.

Set variable text column width in printf & The simplest way of printing a portion of a char[] in C
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I want to output a menu in C but I can't get it look good. I have search functions to do this in C and cannot find any?

A website used C# and String.Format() to achieve this, I wonder if this is possible to do in C ?

> [C#] Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------");
> Console.WriteLine("First Name | Last Name  |   Age");
> Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------");
> Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0,-10} | {1,-10} | {2,5}", "Bill",
> "Gates", 51)); Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0,-10} | {1,-10} |
> {2,5}", "Edna", "Parker", 114));
> Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0,-10} | {1,-10} | {2,5}", "Johnny",
> "Depp", 44)); Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------");

OUTput be like:

 -------------------------------
 First Name | Last Name  |   Age
 -------------------------------
 Bill       | Gates      |    51
 Edna       | Parker     |   114
 Johnny     | Depp       |    44
 -------------------------------

In my own C I am trying to format one string and space or special character before and after such as:

--------------------------------
------This x costs y dollar-----
------This i costs j dollar-----
...
...
-------------------------------

The front would be %s the item name, and latter would be %d the cost.
My idea was like to print this in a loop, it loops m(total items) times define a line width of 30 total. Each loop find the length of the item name, use another loop to /10 of the cost to find it's len and add both of them together. print ((line-totalLen)/2) in front, print the string and do the same after the string? The small problem would be if the whole string is odd or even number.