A little help

[Fubar]

I figured it out thanks Cervantes.

[Cervantes]

Welcome to compsci.ca.
Your question sounds like homework to me. Know that we don't do homework for you. I hope that's not what you're asking. To help you, though:
You'll definately need to know for loops. Getting the top and bottom lines of the z should be easy using for loops (actually, it's easier without for loops and with using repeat). Getting the middle line is a little harder. Use a for loop to go down from the top of the z to the bottom and the number of spaces to put before the '*' is directly related to how far down the z you are.
Hopefully you understood that. If not... well, it's really not that hard. Thinking about it for a minute or two should do the trick.

Oh, and if you don't know for loops, here's a link to the tutorial.

[Fubar]

well basically i couldn't get the middle part of the 'z'.

code:

var size : int get size if (size < 3 and size > 25) then     put "Invalid input" elsif (size >= 3 and size <= 25) then     cls     for top : 1 .. size         put "*" ..     end for    % for decreasing mid : size - 2 .. 1    %  put " ", "*"    % end for     for bottom : 1 .. size         put "*" ..     end for end if

still working on it.
thanks,
Fubar

[sockoo]

i modified ur code to what i beleive you want .. lemme know

code:

var size : int get size if (size < 3 and size > 25) then     put "Invalid input" elsif (size >= 3 and size <= 25) then     cls     for top : 1 .. size         put "*" ..     end for    locate(2,1) % MODIFIED (added in)        put"*"     % MODIFIED (added in)    for bottom : 1 .. size         put "*" ..     end for end if

[Fubar]

That's not what i meant ^^. Say the user inputs 3, it would draw this:
***
^*^
***

so it looks like a 'z'.

[Notoroge]

code:

var size, count : int count := 2 get size cls put repeat ("*", size) loop     for i : 1 .. (size - count)         put " " ..     end for     put "*"     count := count + 1     exit when count = size end loop put repeat ("*", size)

You're welcome.

[Notoroge]

Wow sockoo, You're really over complicating it. If it works, it works though.
Update: Haha, what a way to delete your post just in time.

[Fubar]

Notorage it doesn't work. this is how it's supposed to look:




See how it's suppose to allign.

[Cervantes]

That's the connection I was getting at, Notoroge, between size and the position of the star in the diagonal line.
Now that you've given him the answer... let's improve it.

Turing:

var size : int get size put repeat ("*", size) for i : 2 .. size - 1     put repeat (" ", size - i), "*" end for put repeat ("*", size)

There's no need to use a loop like you did, when we know how many times we want it to execute and when we want a counter variable. Just use a for loop!

[Notoroge]

Dude, I updated it. Look at it. It works perfectly. Ah! I should have typed that in the Update as well. Look at it though. IT WORKS!

[sockoo]

Notoroge wrote:

Wow sockoo, You're really over complicating it. If it works, it works though.
Update: Haha, what a way to delete your post just in time.

lol yes i deleted my post as i saw ur's works perfectly