variable crash

[Unregistered]

I had a working program that displayed a hollow rectangle from *. I wanted the the user to be able to choose what symbol the rectangle would be drawn from. My attempt killed the program.
I knew it was too easy to work. what can be don to fix this?

int main(void)
{
	int inner, outer;// loop control varibles
	int length, width; 
	int icon;// was *
	printf("This program draws a hollow rectangle using a character of your choice\n\n");

	printf("Choose character for display\n ");
	scanf("%d", &icon);
	printf("Enter length: ");
	scanf("%d",&length);
	printf("Enter width: ");
	scanf("%d",&width);


	for(inner = 0; inner < width; inner ++)// prints top row of the icon
		
		printf("icon");// was *

	    printf("\n");

	for(inner = 0; inner < length; inner ++)// prints both sides starting with left
	{ 
		printf("icon");//was*
		
	for(outer = 0; outer < (width-2); outer ++)// prints spaces to where the right column should be 
		 
		printf(" ");
		
		printf("icon");// prints an icon in the right column                             //was*

		printf("\n");
	}// end for
	for(inner = 0; inner < width; inner ++)// prints bottom row of icon
		
		printf("icon");//was*

	    printf("\n\n");
		
}// end main

[doubleanti]

you've got the right idea... just use a char for the output character instead of an int, and scanf a character... [or you could get the ascii character from a numeric input if you wanted to...] also, i take it you are aware of the usage of printf in a formatting style since you are using scanf correctly... aside from that, use code tags, they can help us diagnose your problem much better... i've edited your post implementing them...

[Salem]

> int icon;// was *
char icon;

> scanf("%d", &icon);
scanf("%c", &icon);
This reads a single character

> printf("icon");// was *
printf("%c",icon);// was *

Change all of these

One more thing, add
return 0;
to the end of the main function