Re: Program help

From: John Harrison (john_andronicus_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:53:24 +0100

"Josh" <tool540@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3b2ebc2c.0409141950.20d807d4@posting.google.com...
> Howdy
> i am newb somewhat to programing and i was just for fun trying to
> compile a program that asks the user for an odd int less than 22 and
> then returns this
> *****************
> ******* *********
> ****** ********
> ***** *******
> etc. the first line reps. the number enterd by user
> but i am having trouble i can get the first line but am having trouble
> making the white space in the middle i am using a nested loop. Should
> i use arrays?

No

> Any help would help thanks
> Josh

You need several loops. At the highest level you have a loop, each time
round that loop you print an single line. Within that loop you have a
sequence of three loops. The first prints the first block of *, the second
prints the block of spaces, the third prints the second block of *.
Something like this

// print lines
for (...)
{
    // print first *'s
    for (...)
    {
    }
    // print spaces
    for (...)
    {
    }
    // print second *'s
    for (...)
    {
    }
}

john

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