Outputting a string image on console

[fahmankhan75]

First, can the members tell me if this is how you make a correct initilizatoin of alphabets. I want it in 5 columns(represeing total height) and 2 rows(representing two alphbets(a and b).

 const string letters[5][2]=
{
				
{"   _____   "						
"  /  _  \\  "
" /  /_\\  \\ "
"/    |    \\"
"\\____|__  /"}, 


{"__________ "
"\\______   \\"
 "|    |  _//"
" |    |   \\"
" |______  //"}
         


};

Moreover, I'm struggling to output this on the screen. I just want the "A" to be outputted on the console, however I get a silly output. here is the code im using

int r=0;
	for (int i=0;i<5;i++)
	{		
			cout<<letters[i][r];
	cout<<endl;
}

[Zhuge]

Well, you can try unrolling the loop, examining its contents to see if it does what you want (which I'm sure you've realized it doesn't). Your loop is equivalent to printing:
cout<<letters[0][0]<<letters[1][0]<<letters[2][0]<<letters[3][0]<<letters[4][0]<<endl;
Can you see why that is? From there, you should be able to think about it and see what you need to change to print what you want.