need help with a c-program

well this is not something that i would normally ask for but i\'m quite desperate. i\'ve been studying for my midterm exams and so i decided to solve some of the problems in the text book i came across this nice little question which asked to print the following patterns using the "for loop" and "printf("*")"
a.
*
**
***
****
*****
******
*******
********
*********
**********
b. is the mirror image of a
_________*
________**
_______***
______****
_____*****
____******
___*******
__********
_*********
********** (without the ________)
now the first was a peice of cake

#include
int main ()
{
int i;
int size=10, count=9;
for(count=9;count>=0;count--)
{
for (i=1;i<=size-count;i++)
{
printf("*");
}
printf("\\n");
}
return 0;
}

now i\'ve been trying to solve the second for over an hour and still havent come up with a viable solution.
so if anyone can help me, please do.
 

Ugh that\'s very ugly code. Always remember to indent even if you\'re just posting in a forum. Personally, I\'d just use an inverse of the first algorithm but with single spaces instead of *\'s. And at each step of that loop, I\'d add the *\'s using the original solution.

avvy what do ya mean by indent, i\'m relatively new to c programming so forgive my ignorrance.

w00t0rz i r0x
i finally got it here it is (its not the most perfect code but it\'ll do)

#include
int main ()
{
int i=1,size=10;
for (size=10;size>=1;size--)
{
for (i=1;i<=10;i++)
{
if (iprintf(" ");
else
printf("*");}
printf("\\n");
}
return 0;
}

btw thanks for the help Avvy .

nm looks like you got it.

emperor, yer code looked quite interesting, but too bad i\'m not allowed to use any type of code which is not covered by my course.
anyways i apreciate yer help, thanks alot guys.

If you can get your hands on a C reference book check out the options for printf.  What I was saying was

printf("%10s", "word");
   is the same as
printf("%*s", 10, "word");

the * lets you specify bytesize on the fly.  Very useful for formatting.  It doesn\'t help so much in this example though.  C is horrible for strings.  C++ is a little better but perl is #1 choice.

hahaha, nevermind.. emmy put some hack that kills all the spaces.


u know how you start writing things on a different vertical line, usually towards the right? thats indentation.

My goal is to do as much as possible with as few lines as possible.  Laziness is a virtue

its actually easier to do more lines than less. ur not being lazy thar, ur being clever.