setfill(*) and setw() help needed!

[sam142]

i want to print like this
*************** * some text with blank *************** *****
using setw() and setfill(*) how to to this ?
and also want to print like this
some text ***** some text

[weaknessforcats]

Consider writing a manipulator. These are functions like endl. They have a single ostream& argument and return an ostream&.

So to display five asterisks you would write:

ostream& FiveStars(ostream& os)
{
    os << "*****";
    return os;
}

Then to use it you code:

cout << FiveStars << "some text with blanks" << FiveStars << endl;

Of course, since FiveStars is a function of yours you can write code to determine what the fill character is and how many to display, etc...