Thread: Using for loops

Originally Posted by GReaper

That's probably an even/odd problem. Your algorithm works fine for odd numbers but not for even ones. There's unfortunately no way around that because you can't center an even amount of characters.

that exe output isn't mine that's what it's suppose to do , and I'm kinda lost on how to do that.. I used for loops to create the frame with a condition regarding the division of the dimension by 3..

Originally Posted by john.c

We need more vague descriptions of your code. Perhaps a video of you miming it like in charades.


Or you could just post it here in code tags.

Thanks for replying. this is my code so far :

Code:

#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
	int sheight = 0, swidth = 0, i1, j1, i2, j2, j3;
	
		while (sheight < 7 || sheight> 79){
			printf("Please enter the square height, range 7-79:\n");
			scanf("%d", &sheight);
		}
		while (swidth < 7 || swidth> 79){
			printf("Please enter the square width, range 7-79:\n");
			scanf("%d", &swidth);
		}
		//printing 1 or 2 rows of Z's depending on wether height divides by 3 or not.
		for (i1 = 1; sheight % 3 == 0 && i1 <= 2; i1++){
			for (j1 = 1; j1 <= swidth; j1++){
				printf("Z");
			}
			printf("\n");
		}
		for (i1 = 1; sheight % 3 != 0 && i1 <= 1; i1++){
			for (j1 = 1; j1 <= swidth; j1++){
				printf("Z");
			}


			printf("\n");
		}
		//printing 1 or 2 columns of Z's depending on wether width divides by 3 or not.
		if (swidth % 3 == 0 && sheight % 3 == 0){
			for (i2 = 1; i2 <= (sheight - 4); i2++){
				printf("ZZ");
				//print spaces
				for (j2 = 1; j2 <= (swidth - 4); j2++){ printf(" "); }
				printf("ZZ\n");
			}
			//another 2 rows of Z's
			for (i1 = 1; sheight % 3 == 0 && i1 <= 2; i1++){
				for (j1 = 1; j1 <= swidth; j1++){
					printf("Z");
				}
				printf("\n");


			}
		}
		if (swidth % 3 == 0 && sheight % 3 != 0){
			for (i2 = 1; i2 <= (sheight - 2); i2++){
				printf("ZZ");
				//print spaces
				for (j2 = 1; j2 <= (swidth - 4); j2++){ printf(" "); }
				printf("ZZ\n");
			}
			//another row of Z's
			for (i1 = 1; sheight % 3 != 0 && i1 <= 1; i1++){
				for (j1 = 1; j1 <= swidth; j1++){
					printf("Z");
				}


				printf("\n");
			}


		}
		if (swidth % 3 != 0 && sheight % 3 == 0){
			for (i2 = 1; i2 <= (sheight - 4); i2++){
				printf("Z");
				//print spaces
				for (j2 = 1; j2 <= (swidth - 2); j2++){ printf(" "); }
				printf("Z\n");


			}
			//print another 2 rows of Z's
			for (i1 = 1; sheight % 3 == 0 && i1 <= 2; i1++){
				for (j1 = 1; j1 <= swidth; j1++){
					printf("Z");
				}
				printf("\n");


			}
		}
		if (swidth % 3 != 0 && sheight % 3 != 0){
			for (i2 = 1; i2 <= (sheight - 2); i2++){
				printf("Z");
				//print spaces
				for (j2 = 1; j2 <= (swidth - 2); j2++){ printf(" "); }
				printf("Z\n");


			}
			//print another row of Z's
			for (i1 = 1; sheight % 3 != 0 && i1 <= 1; i1++){
				for (j1 = 1; j1 <= swidth; j1++){
					printf("Z");
				}


				printf("\n");
			}
		}


	return 0;
}

It prints the square's frame according to the given conditions (if height/width divides by 3 double sized top-bottom/ sides is printed), now I should also print the :
XOX
OXO
XOX
inside the square and also make sure that a whole one fits, and not just a part of it, if there's not enough room then the rest should have spaces

Thing is I need to print it in XOX blocks, and if it doesn't fit the rest should be filled with spaces.. so far I just can't get it to do all at the same time..
OXO
XOX