hollow rectangle

I need a simple algorithm with nothing complicated, no pointers, arrays ect.

I need to draw a HOLLOW rectangle of any given dimensions..

NOT

****
****
****

No "*" inside, only the borders.

Please somebody tell me the right way to do it.

how about this?
printf(***);
printf(* *);
printf(***);

Try with loops...............I'd recomend for

I need an algorithm

The users enters the dimesnion, say:

height = 3
width = 4

output:

****
*``*
****

but ofcourse the ` arent there. only put it in so that the output would look right.

Does anbody know an algorithm for a hollow rectangle

thanks

are you the same person who asked this in the game board..

Code:

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do
{
 cin>>ans;
 ans=toupper(ans);
}
while(ans!='Y' && ans!='N');

if(ans=='Y')
{
 dont_cross_post();
 gameprog_board();
}
else
 gameprog_board();

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The horizontal will be your inner loop and the vertical will be your outer loop. The number of blanks will be two less than each dimension. Play with it a bit. We don't want to do all of your homework.

OK, I'll bite this once but I'm a total noob myself and can't testify to the quality of my solution. It works, but it's not pretty.

-That1Guy

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
        int i; 
        int j; 

        int numRows = 15;
        int numCols = 15;

        int rowCount = 0;
        int colCount = 0;

        for(i = 0; i < numRows; i++)
        {     
                if(rowCount == 0 || rowCount == (numRows - 1))
                {     
                        rowCount++;

                        for(j = 0; j < numCols; j++)
                                printf("*");
                        printf("\n");
                }     
                else   
                {     
                        rowCount++;

                        for(j = 0; j < numCols; j++)
                        {     
                                if(colCount == 0 || colCount == (numCols - 1))
                                {     
                                        colCount++;
                                        printf("*");
                                }     
                                else   
                                {     
                                        colCount++;
                                        printf(" ");
                                }     
                        }     

                        printf("\n");
                        colCount = 0;
                }     
        }     
       
        return(0);
}

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This question is asked often enough that a board search will work wonders. I know that quzah and I gave solutions to this problem not a week ago.

-Prelude