Answer to Question #263568 in C++ for john

Question

Write a program that prompts the user to input height and width and print the hollow rectangle

as given in the output below. The program should check whether the both height and width

of rectangle are equal or not. Do not use nested loops.

Answer 1

#include <iostream>


int main()
{
    int hight;
    int width;
    std::cout << "Enter the height of the rectangle: ";
    std::cin >> hight;
    std::cout << "Enter the width of the rectangle: ";
    std::cin >> width;
    // Checking width is greater than height
    if (hight > width) 
    {
        int temp = hight;
        hight = width;
        width = temp;
    }
    for (int i = 1; i <= hight* width; i++ )
    {
        if (i <= width || i > width * (hight - 1) || i % width < 2) 
        {
            std::cout << "*";
        }
        else 
        {
            std::cout << " ";
        }
        if (i % width == 0) 
        {
            std::cout << "\n";
         }
    }
    return 0;
}