Question

I need to be able to have spaces come up between each number. Here is my code. Any help would be awesome! This app allows you too have 6 rows of 6 numbers generated for your insta pick numbers between 1 – 49, it has to pick two rows of 6 numbers, 1 – 49 for twist and 1 row of 6 numbers for tag.

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

    int main()
    {
    {
cout << "*** LOTTO  MAX  INSTA  PICK ***" << endl;
cout<< " " << endl << endl;
    }

    {
cout << "Your Insta Pick Numbers" << endl;
cout<< " " << endl << endl;
    }
for (int counter = 1; counter <= 24; ++ counter)
{

    cout << setw(1) << (1 + rand() % 49);


    if (counter % 6 == 0)
        cout << endl;
}
{
    cout<< " " << endl << endl;
    cout<< " " << endl << endl;
}
{
cout << "Your Twist Numbers" << endl;
cout<< " " << endl << endl;
    }
for (int counter = 1; counter <= 12; ++ counter)
{

    cout << setw(1) << (1 + rand() % 49) , "  ";


    if (counter % 6 == 0)
        cout << endl;

}
{
    cout<< " " << endl << endl;
    cout<< " " << endl << endl;
}


{
cout << "Your Tag Numbers" << endl;
cout<< " " << endl << endl;
    }
for (int counter = 1; counter <= 6; ++ counter)
{

    cout << setw(1) << (1 + rand() % 12);


    if (counter % 6 == 0)
        cout << endl;

}
{
    cout<< " " << endl << endl;
   cout<< " " << endl << endl;
}
{
cout << "Thank you for playing!! please check ticket a year minus a day               from date of purchase" <<endl;
}
    };

Answer 1

You almost had it when you did

cout << setw(1) << (1 + rand() % 49) , "  ";

but that doesn’t do what you think it does. It evaluates two expressions, separated by a comma – cout << setw(1) << (1 + rand() % 49) and " ". The first does the setw and prints (1 + rand() % 49), and the second one just evaluates to itself and has no effect. Remember that << is the output operator for cout, so you just need to change the comma to a <<:

cout << setw(1) << (1 + rand() % 49) << "  ";

The same thing goes for the other places you are printing numbers.