Help with Asterisks Triangle

[rzaj]

I need to create a program that shows an inverted and right-justified triangle of asterisks. The amount of rows is determined by a positive value entered by the user.

I can get the triangle to work, but it is left justified. I am having trouble with the spacing to get it to be right justified. Hints and help would be great! Here is my code:


#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()

{
int value, starcount = 0, rowcount = 0;

cout<<"Enter a positive integer: ";
cin>> value;

while (value <= 0)
{
cout<<"That was not a positive integer, re-enter: ";
cin>> value;
}

cout <<" "<<endl;

while ( rowcount < value)
{
while(starcount < value)
{
cout<<"*";
starcount = starcount +1;
}

cout<<endl;
cout<<' '; /*If this is taken out, the triangle looks perfect, accept its left justified*/
starcount = rowcount +1;
rowcount = rowcount + 1;

}

return 0;
}

[Duthomhas]

Remember that there is no "empty space" on the screen; there are space characters to the left of your "justified asterisks". I find it often helps to draw what I want to see on the screen using a piece of graph paper, and observe any patterns that may suggest themselves.

Hope this helps.