How would I use a for loop in this situation?

[Wulfinite]

How would I use a for loop when I need to write code that will compute the result of an int raised to the power of another int? Does that mean I'd have to make a separate base variable and an exponent variable initialized within the for loop?

For example, using a for loop I'll have to output the result of an int raised to the power of another int. So base variable x = 2, exponent variable = 2, so the output would be for. How would I do this using a for loop?

[mutexe]

Before your for loop, ask the user for 2 numbers:
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/basic_io/

Then inside your for loop, use the exponent value to limit the amount of times it loops whilst multiply the variable by itself to calculate the result.

[Wulfinite]

Would you mind elaborating with code?

[liuyang]

I think mutexe has answered that quite clear. But if you really need some sample code, I could provide one.

// ask for 2 numbers
int x, y;
std::cin >> x >> y;

// loop and multiply
int result = 1;
for (int i = 0; i < y; i++)
    result *= x;