Getting error in pset1 mario more

Question

In pset1 mario more problem i'm getting these errors. I don't understand the errors and how to correct this.

:( handles a height of 2 correctly
   \ expected output, but not " #  # \n##  ##\n"
:( handles a height of 23 correctly
   \ expected output, but not "                      #  #             ..."

Answer 1

Hmmm, this looks like a unique problem. ;-) check50 expects very exact output. That means that any missing or extra content, like whitespace, prompts, punctuation, characters, spaces, or anything else will almost always cause a fail.

In looking at the output, I'm thinking that the problem is the spaces that are printed after the last # and before the carriage return on each line before the last line of the pyramid. But, I could be wrong.

Try not printing the trailing spaces and see if that fixes it.

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Answer 2

Ya I had the same problem, you can't print spaces on the second triangular block. Thats why it works for 1 in the checker but not 2 and 23. They should really specify this is in the problem not to print trailing spaces on the second triangular block.

Answer 3

This mistake non obvious and can confused especially when you have same outputs after checking but system has return the mistake.

Be sure that inside you code you have something like

{
 printf("");
}

instead

{
 printf(" ");
}