I didn't want to ask for help on this seemingly easy program, but...

-dcx- · 2002-10-09T02:14:16

...For some reason this one is giving me a little bit of trouble. I was reading through one of the tutorial books and for one of the exercises it asks to create a program that takes two positive integer, one representing height and one width. And depending on the given numbers, eg. width=8 height=4, the program should output a box with asterix like this: ******** *...........* *...........* ******** (not including the periods) The book says the main program should call a function that takes two const unsigned arguments called width and height and then draws the rectangle. I've made similar program like this before where there is a name in the middle of the box, but I don't know what to do with this one. I've never even used 'const unsigned' before, how does that work? Here's the code for the other program I made: #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { std::cout << "Enter Name: "; std::string name; std::cin >> name; //the message const std::string greeting = "Hello, " + name + "!"; //2nd/4th lines const std::string spaces(greeting.size(), ' '); const std::string second = "* " + spaces + " *"; //first and last lines const std::string first(second.size(), '*'); //print out std::cout << std::endl; std::cout << first << std::endl; std::cout << second << std::endl; std::cout << "* " << greeting << " *" << std::endl; std::cout << second << std::endl; std::cout << first << std::endl; return 0; } Is there anything I can change in my greeting program but without the name, sorry I'm completely stuck and can someone tell me what const unsigned does, I've never used it before. [edited by - -dcx- on October 6, 2002 4:34:27 PM]

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Started by -dcx- October 06, 2002 03:30 PM

10 comments, last by -dcx- 22 years, 1 month ago

ph33r

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October 08, 2002 10:43 PM

Sorry for calling you xanoth I meant xanth

Regardless, yes I''ve coded so many ismple functions before and to find a day later that it was in the STL.

Xanth

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October 09, 2002 02:14 AM

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Sorry for calling you xanoth I meant xanth

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Hehehe, no apology necessary =)

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Regardless, yes I''ve coded so many ismple functions before and to find a day later that it was in the STL.

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LoL, yup. Seems like it always go that way too...

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