outputting border of a square-nested loops and conditionals

[imperialcplusplus]

I am writing some code such that:

1) you input the length of the side of a square and what you want to repeat
2) it then outputs the border of the square

my problem is that this code only outputs the first and last row but no the middle. I know that this might be because it is existing the for loop after the if condition or it just never gets to the else ?

I would appreciate any help.

 #include <iostream>
#include <string>




int main(){

    int n;
    std::string c;
    std::cout << " please enter a number and a character" << std::endl;
    std::cin >> n >> c;

    for(int i=0; i<n; i++){


        if(i==0 || i==(n-1)){
            for(int j = 0; j<n; j++){
                std::cout << c << " ";
            }
            std::cout << std::endl;
        }
        else{
            for(int j=0; j==0 && j==(n-1); j++){
                std::cout << c << " ";
            }
            std::cout << std::endl;
        }


}
return 0;
}

[lastchance]

You need to have a long hard look at the things you expect j to be equal to (simultaneously) on line 24.

When that is fixed, you need to think how you will output one c, followed by n-2 blanks, followed by another c in this section.

[salem c]

Perhaps if you renamed 'i' to be 'row' and 'j' to be 'col', things would be a lot less opaque.