Question

I’m trying to create a table in C++ that asks you for the length of the sides and outputs a star table.

Can someone point me in the right direction as to what I should be doing to get the table to start displaying correctly?

input:

Enter length of side: 5

wanted output:

*****
*   *
*   *
*   *
*   *
*****

what I have so far outputs the first line of *’s minus one then displays the number you input.

#include "main.h"
using namespace std;


    int main () {
      int sideLength;
      cout << "Enter lengh of side: ";
      cin >> sideLength;
      cout.fill('*');
      cout.width(sideLength);
      cout << sideLength << endl;
      return 0;
    }

thanks in advanced, just learning c++

Answer 1

you can do it like this:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  int sideLength;
  cout << "Enter lengh of side: ";
  cin >> sideLength;

  for (int i = 0; i < sideLength; i++)
    cout<<"*";

  cout<<"\n";

  for (int i = 0; i < sideLength-2; i++) 
  {
    cout<<"*";

    for (int j = 0; j < sideLength-2; j++)
      cout<<" ";

    cout<<"*"<<"\n";
  }

  for (int i = 0; i < sideLength; i++)
    cout<<"*";

  cout<<"\n";

  return 0;
}