Thread: need help on program...

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    Question need help on program...

    Ive been told to do a program which outputs the following:

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


    I know it involves using three loops that look like this:


    for(int i=1;i<=5;i++)
    {
    for(int j=i;j<=5;j++)
    {
    cout<<" ";
    }
    for(???????)
    {
    cout<<*;
    }
    cout<<endl;
    }

    can someone please tell me if im close, and if so what this third loop needs to contain? ive been trying to do it for a while now, and no matter what i put in that third loop it always runs infinitely.
    thanks~

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    more...

    for some reason when i posted it altered the triangle i needed...
    since it wont let me display, ill descobe it...
    it consists of a block pretty much, where it has 4 spaces and 1 star for the first row, then 3 spaces and 2 stars for the second...etc,etc...pretty much the one displayed, but reversed.
    thanks~

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    for(int i=1;i<=5;i++)//which line
    {
    for(int j=i;j< 5;j++) //max 4 spaces per line
    {
    cout<<" ";
    }
    for(int k = 1; k <= i; k++)//max 5 * per line
    {
    cout<<'*';
    //etc.

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    or you could just cheat...


    cout << "*\n";
    cout << "**\n";
    cout << "***\n";
    cout << "****\n";
    cout << "*****\n";
    I came up with a cool phrase to put down here, but i forgot it...

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