C++ Pattern Help

Hellow forum. I am new to the forum but would like some help. I am new to c++ studying it at a Univercity(just started). But i need help with a question i got in our new program set.\

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4. Write a program that displays the following pattern

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

Your program may use ONLY three types of output statements, one of each of the following forms:
cout << “* “;
cout << “ “;
cout << endl;

You must use a loop to solve this problem. The type of loop you choose to use is up to you. You cannot submit a solution that does not use looping of some form.

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What have you tried, or at least what do you have in mind?

Well... so far i think i need to use 2 nested while loops....one for counting down (the outer most loop) and the other for counting across (the inner most loop).

So write the code for main and the loops and get it to compile and run (even if it does nothing). Then once that's working you can work on getting it to display the *'s correctly.

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
       
        for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ){
       
                for(int x = 0; x < i+1; x++){
                        cout<<"*";
                }
                cout<<endl;               
        }
       
        return 0;       
}

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But the ** displays the wrong direction

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But the ** displays the wrong direction

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The code looks okay. I went so far as to test it, and it appears to work just as your assignment described.

If you wanted a pattern like this:

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  *
 **
***

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then you'd just have to print 10-i spaces before you go printing asterisks.

>> But the ** displays the wrong direction
Put the assignment (or the example) in code tags, not quote tags, to make sure it displays properly in the forum. I assume that you want it like dwks showed, but if not then you'll have to post the example again so that the leading spaces aren't removed by the forum software.

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Put the assignment (or the example) in code tags, not quote tags, to make sure it displays properly in the forum. I assume that you want it like dwks showed, but if not then you'll have to post the example again so that the leading spaces aren't removed by the forum software.

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Just the example. Otherwise those long lines of text would run off the edge of the screen, if you had a reasonably small monitor.

BTW, "x <= i" might be easier to read than "x < i+1".

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Originally Posted by dwks

If you wanted a pattern like this:

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  *
 **
***

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then you'd just have to print 10-i spaces before you go printing asterisks.

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How could i do that?

Umm . . . so you need 10-i spaces. How do you create a loop that loops 10-i times?

The loop

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for(x = 0; x < N; x ++)

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loops N times, so how do you think you loop 10-i times?