In my book is says to write a program in its little review section. (I only want to make the first pattern, so that's all I'm gonna type out. ) I can't figure out how to print a character in increasing number for the life of me. I can do it easily with integers, but I have no idea how to do it with non integers. It's driving me nuts.

Here are it's instructions

Write a program that prints the following patters separately on below the other. Use "for" loops to generate the pattersn. All asterisks(*) should be printed by a single statemnt of the form "cout << '*';" (this causes the asterisks to print side by side) Hint: The last two patterns require theat each line begin with an appropriate number of blanks.

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*******
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