Homework help needed for displaying ASCII Characters

[C++ Beginner]

Problem: Write a program that uses a loop to display the characters for each ASCII code 32 through 127. Display 16 characters on each line with one space between characters.

I have tried solving this problem several ways. I either get blank screen or numbers 1-16. Can anyone lend a hand please?

This is what I got so far

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int num = 0;
    char letter;

    while (num <= 16)
    {
        letter = 32;
        cout << letter << " " << endl;
        num++;
    }
    return 0;
}

tried:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int num = 0;
    char letter;

    while (num <= 16)
    {
        letter = 32;
        cout << num << " " << endl;
        num++;
    }
    return 0;
}

[Clinton Portis]

Try this:

char letter = 32;
int counter = 0;

while (letter < 128)
{    
     cout << letter << ' ';

     counter++;

     if(counter == 16)
     {
         cout << endl;
         counter = 0;
     }

     letter++;     
}

[C++ Beginner]

I tried that and my printout is blank

{
    char letter = 32;
    int counter = 0;

    while (letter < 128)
    {
        cout << letter << " ";
        counter++;
    }
    if (counter == 16)
    {
        cout << endl;
        counter = 0;
    }
    letter++;
    return 0;
}

[C++ Beginner]

I tried your advice but I am getting a blank output screen. this is what I put in, possible that I am missing something? Please not that I am a beginner and just started to learn this in August of 09. I may not understand what you post so if you could be kind and give an explanation on your code I would greatly appreciate it so I can better understand why it's done like this or that. I would learn more out of it and not just get an answer to my issue.

[Lerner]

Notice the different placements of the curly brackets betweenn the code written by Clinton Portis and your code. He checks the value of counter within the while loop to start a new line if needed, you check it outside the while loop.

Try this:

#include iostream
using namespace std;
int main()
{
   char letter = 32;
   cout << letter;
   cin.get();
   return 0;
}

If that prints a char to the screen, then the code posted above this post should work ok, too. If not you could try an explicit cast from int to char like this:

#include iostream
using namespace std;
int main()
{
   char letter = (char)32;
   cout << letter;
   cin.get();
   return 0;
}

though you may want to use the up to date C++ version of casting rather than the older C version I demonstrated above.

[C++ Beginner]

Ok I see what I was doing wrong. I followed Portis script and it now displays the characters but it keeps looping, I have to hit Ctrl+C to terminate output screen. I will have to figure out why that happens, thanks for explaining to me why things were done in the syntax, I am a hardware tech and code is a new language for me :)

[furyrichie]

/* this the easiest way. im a kid bt i know programming*/
#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
clrscr();
char ch;
int num;
cout<<"Enter the digit : ";
cin>>ch;
cout<<"\n";
num = ch;
cout<<"The ASCII CODE of the digit is : "<<num;
getch();
}