newbie homework help please

[phnominon]

I have an assignment due tomorrow for a intro to c class that i am almost done with. This may be a dumb question, but how do you print a space? all by itself? I can left and right justify, but it isnt working for me here. I am kinda lost and its due tomorrow first thing. Any help would be appreciated. It is supposed to be an asterisk printing exercise to look like this:

**********
*********
********
*******
******
*****
****
***
**
*

*
**
***
****
and so on up to ten, which i have figured out, but the next part is to reverse this and have the spaces first, such as :

***********
_**********
__**********
___*********

and so on. Here is what i have so far,

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{

  int r=0;
  int c=0;


  /*pyramid top*/

  for ( r= 0; r <10; r++)
    {
      for (c=0; c<=r; c++)
        {
          printf("*");
        }
      printf("\n");
    }
  printf("\n");


  /*pyramid bottom*/

  for ( r= 0; r <10; r++)
    {
      for (c=10; c>r; c--)
        {
          printf("*");
        }
      printf("\n");
    }
  printf("\n");


  /*reverse top*/

  for ( r= 0; r <10; r++)
    {
      for (c=10; c>r; c--)
        {
          printf(" ");
        }
    }
  /*reverse bottom*/


  for ( r= 0; r <10; r++)
    {
      for (c=0; c<=r; c++)
        {
          printf("*");
        }
      printf("\n");
    }
  printf("\n");


  return 0;
}

thanks for any help or advice

[Salem]

  for ( r= 0; r <10; r++)
    {
      for (c=10; c>r; c--)
        {
          printf("!");  /*!! Watch */
        }
    }

Result

$ ./a.exe
*
**
***
****
*****
******
*******
********
*********
**********

**********
*********
********
*******
******
*****
****
***
**
*

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
**
***
****
*****
******
*******
********
*********
**********

You printed ALL your spaces at once, not a few at a time on each line.
Put the space printing loop inside the next loop
loop
- print some space
- print some stars

[wonderpoop]

you want to print the spaces like you are printing the stars.

L /* number of lines */
A /* number of astericks */
S /* number of spaces */

also, you don't need r=0. That is already defined in your for loop.