Printing Asterisks (please help)

My paper of Introduction To Programming is going to be help on 19/feb/2013...
I've to complete some programs before paper.

i want to print stars in this manner:
* * * * *
. * * * *
. . * * *
. . . * *
. . . . *

what if i declare a character to handle space like this char space = ' . ';
can i increment this space character .. ?!?!?!

For instance i write this:

int main()
{
	int length;
	cout << "Length: ";
	cin >> length;
	for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
	{
		cout << "* ";
	}
	cout << endl;
	
}

I WILL UPDATE THE CODE AS SOON AS I GOT SOMETHING IN MY MIND..

Tags: C++