basically I need to have the user input their first name and then output it with asterisks in between each character eg.("Joseph" to "J*o*s*e*p*h") . Im having trouble with my loop stopping when I want it to, and I think I may need an If statement to stop putting an asterisk after the final character. Here is my code:
//this complies but gives me a bunch of jargon after the text and prints an asterisk after the final letter

const int SIZE =15;//I dont know how to get away from using this const value because i need to use a variable so the loop will work, im not sure what to do about this

char name[SIZE];

int i;//loop counter

cout<<"please enter your first name;

cin.getline(name,SIZE); //don't think i really need to use the getline but im just using it for practice

for(i=0;i<SIZE;++i) //i<SIZE isn't giving the desired effect because i debugged this and the const value doesn't change

cout<<name<<"*";

//i think this is where i need a loop
//if anyone can tell me how to fix my code i would appreciate it, i know its something silly that i am not thinking of but i cant find it

It does not change because it is a constant. you will need to measure the length of the string itself, not the space allocated for it.Something like the following may do:


http://www.cppreference.com/stdstring/strlen.html

oh yes that is what i needed, i hadn't learned the strlen tag in the course I am taking yet, I wonder though is there any way to do this with out using the strlen? Thank you for the response.

Well if you don't want to use strlen then you can have a for loop like this. :