Hi, I am (shamefully) a newbie. I want to suggest a tiny library I've written that allows you to create "tables" of textual strings. What I mean is supposed you want to output rows of data that look like this FIELD1 (tab) FIELD2 (tab) .... FIELD-N Because many times the actual data that is written to the fields are of different lengths, You might get your output like this Field1_data field2_data field3_data Another_field1_data another_field2_data another_field3_data ... Which is not very readble or conveniet. The library I am proposing fixes this dire situation by defining a format, which states for each field: 1. its 'width' or how many columns it takes 2. its length, how many characters can it hold altogether. Data is written to a buffer using a special class which relies on the Format information. * Lines within a field are broken down in order for the column invariant to be preserved. * if data written to a field is too long for the field, the output of the field ends with "..." to indicate that the data was truncated. * the classes uses NO dynamic memory whatsoever and are very fast. If this is somehow interesting to someone I can spend the time 'boostfying' it And maybe factor some of the features stated above into Strategy classes. So how about it? I am attaching the relevant code here. IT WILL NOT COMPILE because it currently relies on My IO library, my string classes etc. of course if it is deemed interesting I will change it to use boost's classes. Thanks AviadR mailto:aviadr@pob.huji.ac.il