[Dev-C++] A newbie question

[blalock <wi...@ea...>]

I am in class learning C. I am trying to do something, just goofing not
schoolwork, and I wanted to know if I can put a variable in my printf
format string. IE

printf("%variables%5f%3s");

I am trying to make it where I can put spaces into a line but at
differing lengths each time.

If I am misspeaking by asking in this forum, please forgive me. If this
is not a place to ask questions of a general type, could you please
direct me where to go.
                                    Thanks,
                                                Blalock

p/s if this is the place for such posts, I have a thousand more :)