pset 1 Mario code starts with an empty row

Question

I think I got most of it already but I have one issue that I don't see how to solve. If I make the height 8 (for example) it'll print 1 empty row first and then 7 rows with hashes, the last row will have 7 hashes instead of the desired 8. Here's the code.

 for (int r = 0; r < i; r++) // makes a row
 {
        for (int s = i - 1; s > r; s--) // print left spaces
        { 
            printf(" "); 
        }
         for (int h = 0; h < r; h++) // print left hashes
         {
          printf("#");
         }
         for (int g = 0; g < 2; g++) // print gap
         {
             printf(" ");
         }
         for (int h = 0; h < r; h++) // print right hashes
         {
             printf("#");
         }
        printf("\n");

And this is what it makes

Height: 5

   #  #
  ##  ##
 ###  ###
####  ####

I forgot to mention "i" is the user's input for height.

How could I fix this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Look at the relationship between h and r. On the first row, r = 0. Then, in the inner for loops, h must be less than r, but starts at 0. In other words, h = r = 0 on the first row, so the for loop test fails and no hashes are printed.

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