The first thing that comes to my mind is to do a bunch of \t's, but that would cause words to be misaligned if any word is longer than any other word by a few characters.

For example, I would like to have something like:

Name    Last Name            Middle initial
Bob     Jones                M
Joe     ReallyLongLastName   T

Instead, by including only "\t"'s in my cout statement I can only manage to get

Name    Last Name            Middle initial
Bob     Jones                M
Joe     ReallyLongLastName                T

or

Name    Last Name            Middle initial
Bob     Jones    M
Joe     ReallyLongLastName   T

What else would I need to do?