Question

i want to create a program that uses two for statements to display the pattern of asterisks shown below.

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

i can make them using quite a few for statements but i only want to use 2 of them, to make it shorter
this is what i have:

 #include <iostream>
 #include <iomanip>
 using namespace std;

 int main()
 {
 int row = 1;
 int astrk = 1;

 for ( int row = 1; row < 2; row += 1)
 {
 for ( int astrk = 1; astrk <= 2; astrk += 1)
 cout << '*';
 cout << endl;
 }// end for
 for ( int row = 1; row < 2; row += 1)
 {
 for ( int astrk = 1; astrk <= 4; astrk +=1)
 cout << '*';
 cout << endl;
 }//end for
 for ( int row = 1; row < 2; row += 1)
 {
 for ( int astrk = 1; astrk <= 6; astrk += 1)
 cout << '*';
 cout << endl;
 }// end for
 for ( int row = 1; row < 2; row += 1)
 {
 for ( int astrk = 1; astrk <= 8; astrk += 1)
 cout << '*';
 cout << endl;
 }// end for
 for ( int row = 1; row < 2; row += 1)
 {
 for ( int astrk = 1; astrk <= 10; astrk += 1)
 cout << '*';
 cout << endl;
 }// end for

 return 0;
 }

help please? 🙂

Answer 1

You should rewrite this using two for loops, once controlling the rows, and the other one controlling the column.

You have 5 rows, and on each row, you have 2, 4, 6, etc… stars.

for(int i = 1; i <= 5; ++i) // five rows
{
    for(int j = 1; j <= i * 2; ++j) // we have 2 stars for each row number -> 2, 4, 6, etc...
    {
        cout << "*";
    }
    cout << "\n";
}

Try to understand your problem, figure out a solution on paper and then try to implement it, it will be way simpler if you’re learning how to program.