Star program backwards!

[Outlaw782]

I am trying to print out a star program that prints out a series of "*" in
the desired form:

********** (10)
||********* (9)
|||******** (8)
|||||******* (7)
||||||****** (6)
|||||||***** (etc...)
||||||||****
|||||||||***
||||||||||**
|||||||||||*

Just imagine the "|" as white space, can't seem to get it to post correctly without them.

I can't get the correct output, My code is below:

Please note I am trying to do this specifically with do while loops!!

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int column = 10;
	int row = 10;
	int line = 0;
	int star = 0;
	int space = 0;

	do
	{
		do

		{

			cout << " ";
			space++;
		}

		while (space < line);

		do {
		
			cout << "*";
			star++;

		}

		while (star < column);
		
		cout << endl;

	} while (line++ < row);

	system("pause");
	return 0;
}

[CodeWriter]

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int column = 10;
	int row = 10;
	int line = 0;
	int star = 0;
	int space = 0;

	do
	{
	    space = -1;
	    do
	    {
	  	cout << "&";
		space++;
	    } while (space < line);

            star = space;
	    do {	
		cout << "*";
	        star++;
	    } while (star < column+1);
		
	    cout << endl;

	} while (line++ < row);

	system("pause");
	return 0;
}

[SamuelAdams]

Maybe what you posted is what you want, but if the first line has 10 stars, the next line should have 8 or it's not going to look centered. So my first question is, do you want the stars to line up on the right, or centered down the middle ?

[SamuelAdams]

Maybe this will be close to your goal

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int column = 10;
	int row = 10;
	int line = 0;
	int star = 10;
	int space = 0;

	do
	{

		do
		{
			cout << " ";
		} while (space++ < line);
		space=line/2;

		do
		{
			cout << "*";
		} while (star-- > 0 );
		star=row-line-1;

		cout << endl;

	} while (line++ < row);

return 0;
}

[keskiverto]

The do while does always at least one iteration. If you print the leading space with do while for each row, then every row will have at least one space.


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