Question

This is my code:

int main(void)
{

    int i, j, k, n;
    char userLatter, space;
    printf("please enter an uppercase letter:\n");
    scanf("%c", &userLatter);
    n = 9;

    for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
    {
        space = ' ';
        for (j = 5; j > i; j--)
        {
            ++space;
        }


        for (k = 0; k <= i ; k += 1)
        {
            printf("%c%c%c", space, userLatter, space);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }

}

Can you please tell me what I should do so I can print the space character?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You keep turning the space into something else with the line:

++space;

What did you expect that to do? Are you trying to make it a string of multiple spaces

You can left-pad your character by using a printf format specifier. Try this:

int width = 4;
char letter = 'A';
printf( ":%*c:\n", width, letter );

That would output 3 spaces and the letter A:

:   A:

And if you simply want to put a space in, don’t forget you can just put a space in the format string. As in the famous:

printf( "Hello, world!\n" );

Note there is a space in there.