Help display ***** for the value of an int

Lets say int health=6;

I would like to display ***** symbles for the value of health

like int health=6;
display ******

if health were to equal 4
display ****


I would like to do this without using IF statments becouse that would take up a lot of space and take forever if I had like health=100;

what would the best way of doing this be, thanks!

You might want to research basic looping structures.

yeah, that was the first thing I did, I went to
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson3.html

but I still dont know how to print a number of asterisks for an int value

all those seem to do is keep repeating somthing, but I need to print astricks like this ******

and not like
*
*
*
*
*

> and not like
So don't print newlines then

f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-for loop

Code:

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for (int i = 0; i < hp; i++){
cout << "*";
}

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M-m-m-m-m-m-magic.

You need a for loop.
An example is:

Code:

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for(int i=0; i<PlayerHealth; i++){
cout<<"*"}

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Edit: Krak posted before me! :mad:

Thanks guys

Either Jlou or Grib posted this solution a while ago.

Code:

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  cout << string(health,'*') << endl;

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Since we're providing fun solutions:

Code:

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char buf[BUFSIZ] = {0};
memset( buf, '*', health );

cout << buf ;

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[edit]
You could even combine the memset line with the output line...

Code:

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cout << static_cast<char*>(memset( buf, '*', health ));

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That looks about right. ;)
[/edit]

Quzah.

Oooh! Oooh! Pick me!

Code:

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char DispHealth[hp];
for(int i=0; i<hp; i++){DispHealth[i]='*'}

int toggle=0;
for(int i=0; i<hp; i++){
if(toggle==0){
cout<<DispHealth[i];
toggle=1;}
else if(toggle==1){
cout<<"*";
toggle=0;
}
else{
cout<<"\n\nSomebody has problems!\n*Points at Bill Gates* Fix it right now!"}
}

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Okay, maybe I went overboard :D

This has different methods of displaying the asterisk, one just displaying it and the other reading from a char. Of course, you should know that from looking at my code, but some people...

Anyways, these alternate with the methods they use. I could do murmer murmer murmer...

Hope that confuses you :p ,
fuh

>Okay, maybe I went overboard
You also got a little bug: ;)
>else if(toggle=1){

Oops! Problem solved. I just pulled the code up right on the spot.

No, no, you got it all wrong. You need to do:

Code:

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std::fill_n(std::ostream_iterator<char>(std::cout), health, '*');

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