Thread: Why is this nested for loop not printing 5 spaces on the top line?

My question is the comment in the following code. Thanks in advance.

for( i=0; i<num; i++){
 
     for(j=num-i; j>1; j-- ){         // first pass of this loop should print 5 spaces? Because input (5) minus i (0) should be 5? Also if someone could explain to me why j>1. 
     System.out.print(" ");
     }
 
     for(j=0; j<=i; j++){
     System.out.print("* ");
    }
}
 
Console
 
Enter height of pyramid.
5
    *                          
   * *                        
  * * * 
 * * * * 
* * * * *

Try debugging the code by having it print the value of the loop index instead of a space.

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why would it print * on the second loop?

Try debugging the code by adding some print statements that show the values of the variables as the code executes.