Im Confused

[tg0822]

I need to write two functions and a main body program that will output the names of animals into block letters. example: CAT would output like this.
CCC

A
A

TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

My code is outputting this:

012F138E
012F138E
012F138E

Like the title says, Im confused. Please take a look and steer me in the right direction. Thank You!

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

ofstream fout;
ifstream fin;

void line(char ch, int num)
{
	int i;
	for(i=1; i,+num; i++)
		cout<<ch;
	cout<<endl;
}

void rectangle(char ch, int x, int y)
{
	int i=0;
	while(i<=y)
	{
		i++;
		fout<<x<<"\n";
	}
}

void main()
{
	char ch;
	int i=0; int num;

	fin.open("Animals.dat");
	fout.open("Animals_Output.dat");
	fin.get(ch);
	num=ch;

	while(!fin.eof())
	{
		if(ch!='\n')
		{
			i++;
			i=num;
			fout<<rectangle<<endl<<endl;
		}
		else
		{
			i++;
			fout<<endl<<endl<<endl<<endl;
		}
		fin.get(ch);
	}
}

[Chervil]

Line 42 fout<<rectangle<<endl<<endl; will output the address of the function rectangle.

Instead of doing that, you need to call the function. You do that something like this:
rectangle('A' , 3, 5);
or
rectangle(ch, i, 0);
where you pass appropriate values for the three parameters ch, x and y. (Though I don't know what values you need to supply for x and y).

Note, that would be the complete statement. you don't need to put fout or anything else, because the function does its own output at line 22.

[tg0822]

function rectangle printed the data to the file, and instead of trying to print to the file in main() i should have called function rectangle and passed the values. i get it now. Thank You for pointing me in the right direction.