Thread: for ..loop newb question

Hi, i just pretty much started taking c++ and our teacher is having us do for...loops. i got the basic concept of it but theres one assignment i do not understand and its driving me crazy and i have the biggest headache.
The assignment was to make a program that asks the users for the length and heightand then it makes a hollow rectangle.. i got the top and bottom horizontal lines and the left vetical line but i can't get the right vetical line

Code:

 
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int length;
    int height;
cout << "Enter length: ";//user enters the length of the line
     cin >> length;
     
     cout << "Enter Height: ";//user enters the height of the line
     cin >> height;
     
     cout << endl;
     cout << endl;
     
     for (int line = 0; length-1 > line; line += 1){//user enters a number and 
     //for loop displays a line
         cout << "*";// displays the length of the line
         }
     
     for (int line = 0; height-2 > length; height +=1){//Could not figure it out
     //to make the vertical line on the right side of the rectangle
     cout << "*" <<endl;
     }
     
     
     
     for (int line = 0; height > line; line += 1){ //for loop for height
         cout << "*"<< endl;// displays the height .. the endl makes it go to 
         //the next line
         }
         
     for (int line = 0; length > line; line += 1){//user enters a number and for 
     //loop displays a line
         cout << "*";// displays the length of the line
}
         
         
     
     
     cout << endl;
     cout << endl;
     cout << endl;
     
     system("pause");
     }

i don't want anyone to tell me how to do it but give me a hint or some pointers.
thanks
-mike

That was a fun one
http://www.agilman.org/crap/code/line.zip

basically there are two cases when you want to print *...
when x or y =0 (first row and column) or when x=width or y=height (the last row and column)

It might be hard to figure out my code at first, but its pretty neat, I had fun solving this one