COUT text alignment help

Hi, I'm fairly new to C++ been using M$ Visual C++ and it seems to be going ok. I need to develop a program which generates a triangle with a bunch of characters (user inputs what character to use) and also how many rows the triangle will be.

So far I've only managed to get it to be left-aligned and I cannot seem to enable it to be right aligned. The source code is below, please tell me what I am doing wrong.

#include "stdafx.h"

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

void main()
{
char compchar= 'Q';
int a = 0.0;


cout << " Please enter the component character ";
cin >> compchar;

cout << " Please enter the number of rows ";
cin >> a;


for(int i=0; i<=a;i++)
{
for(int ie=1; ie<=1*i; ie++)
cout << compchar ;
getchar();
cout << endl;


}

}

Any help in getting this triangle to be aligned right would be great, all I'd need to do is link it to a CIN (L for left R for right) type of thing.

Thanks,

Sparky

try gotoxy(x1,y1)

where x1 and y1 are the x, y coordinate of the monitor...

Nope not valid ANSI standards, dont compile with M$ visual C++ anyhow. I've been trying
cout << resetiosflags(ios::right);

but it dont seem to work.