Qbasic help please!

[theanimator]

I was wondering if anyone could help me with Qbasic? if so, i need help with this code:

code:

CLS PRINT "how many stars do you want"; INPUT star FOR i = 1 TO star         LET star = star + 1         PRINT "*";         PRINT NEXT i

basically when I run it, the program is supposed to look like this
run:

code:

how many stars do you want? input * ** *** **** ***** etc. depending on how many stars are inputed

[codemage]

You can do that with two for loops.
In Turing, it would look like:

code:

for dummy1 : 1 .. number     for dummy2 : 1 .. dummy1         put "*" ..     end for     put "" end for

[theanimator]

ok, but i need it for Qbasic. So, for two loops, how? i've tried but can't figure it out.

[[Gandalf]]

Oh! BASIC! Let's see what I remembers...

Ok, normally I shouldn't give you the answer, but this will be an exception since it is a fairly simple program. See what I am doing and learn from it. So here it is:

BASIC:

INPUT "How many stars do you want to display? "; starAmount FOR index = 1 TO starAmount FOR starsToPrint = 1 TO index PRINT "*"; NEXT starsToPrint PRINT " " NEXT index

Note that you can have the INPUT statement on just one line.

[theanimator]

thank you for the help. I just don't understand the nested loops so much. I am starting to understand them more tho. I might be back again for help. Thanks again.