Printing a pattern correctly???

[Basia]

Could someone please take a look at my code and give me a hint as to what I am doing wrong. I am trying to print a square pattern out of the type of character and number of characters the user chooses to print.

ie:

The user chooses to print to the screen the character $.
The user chooses to print this character 5 times.

The output should look like this
$$$$$
$$$$$
$$$$$
$$$$$
$$$$$

Please see attachment of source code I have been working with.
MY code will print the right amount of characters down but only 2 characters across no matter what number of characters are entered.

Thank you!

[quzah]

for( y = 0; y < rows; y++ )
{
    for( x = 0; x < columns; x++ )
        print a character
    print a new line
}

Use nested loops.

Quzah.