Thread: Please Help: Need Help with my Nested Loop

Originally Posted by helloworld922

What is the compiler telling you? What results are you getting when you try to run the program?

I can see you have some missing curly braces at the end of your code. This is possibly a copy/paste error, though I can't tell without knowing what the compiler is telling you.

the compiler is telling me this
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Originally Posted by hiroprotagonist

the compiler is telling me this
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i updated my code but im still having problems with my second method and the math that comes with it

public class LincolnField1 {
 
private String dots =".";
private String frontDashes = "_/";
private String lastDashes = "\\_";
private String topLines ="_";
private String sideLines = "|";
private String stars ="********";
 
private String linePrinter = "";
 
public int field()
{
	for(int i = 0; i <= 20; i++)
	{
	 linePrinter = sideLines + drawline(i) + sideLines;
 
	}
}
 
public void drawline(int length)
{
	for(int i = 0; i<= 36; i++)
	{
		if(length > 2)
		{
			if(length > 14)
			{
				dots = dots + stars;
			}
		}
	}
 
}
 
 
}

Originally Posted by helloworld922

I can't clearly make out what the assignment is based off of the image you posted, but it looks like you're missing all the spaces.

I changed by my code im having problems with including the stars into the code, it prints everything else

public class LicolnField2 {
 
	private static final String dot = ".";
	private static final String frontDashes = "_/";
	private static final String lastDashes = "\\_";
	private static final String topLines = "_";
	private static final String sideLines = "|";
	private static final String stars = "********";
	private static final String space = " ";
 
 
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
		// print top line
		for(int j = 0; j < 36; j++)
		{
			System.out.print("_");
		}
		System.out.println("");
 
		// loop for expanding triangle
		for(int row = 1; row < 9; row++)
		{
			int firstRowDots = 2;
			int numDots = 4*row - firstRowDots;
			int numSpaces =( 36 - (numDots + 4))/2;
			System.out.print(sideLines);
			for (int i = 0; i < numSpaces; i++) {
				System.out.print(space);
			}
			System.out.print(frontDashes);
			for (int i = 0; i < numDots; i++) {
				System.out.print(dot);
			}
			System.out.print(lastDashes);
			for (int i = 0; i < numSpaces; i++) {
				System.out.print(space);
 
			}
			System.out.print(sideLines);
			System.out.println("");
		}
 
		// loop for shrinking triangle
		for(int row = 0; row < 8; row++)
		{
			int firstRowDots = 28;
			int numDots = -4*row + firstRowDots ;
			int numSpaces =( 36 - (numDots + 4))/2;
			System.out.print(sideLines);
			for (int i = 0; i < numSpaces; i++) {
				System.out.print(space);
			}
			System.out.print(lastDashes);
			for (int i = 0; i < numDots; i++) {
				System.out.print(dot);
			}
			System.out.print(frontDashes);
			for (int i = 0; i < numSpaces; i++) {
				System.out.print(space);
 
			}
			System.out.print(sideLines);
			System.out.println("");
		}
		//Print bottom line
		for(int j = 0; j < 36; j++)
		{
			System.out.print("_");
		}
 
 
	}
 
}