How to make Java Strings Diagonal

[BronyPie]

Hey everyone,

Would everyone know how to change the output of this from making it diagonal from left to right to right to left?

Thanks

[reniat]

When you use println() instead of print(), it automatically adds a new line at the end of whatever you're printing (the ln in println is short for 'line', essentially meaning this function prints a discrete line of text). This is why you are seeing that diagonal text. Try experimenting around that and see what you get.

 

EDIT: I apologize if I misunderstood your questions, do you want it to be on different lines but have the lines go out and back in? like:

T
	H
		I
			S
            	
					I
						S
                    
				A
            
		T
	E
S

 

[BronyPie]

 

Yes, I want it like : 

                             T

                    E

           S

T

[reniat]

4 minutes ago, BronyPie said:

I'm trying to figure out how to print out the other way

can you be clear on what you mean by "the other way"? can you show us an example of what you want the output to look like?

[BronyPie]

1 minute ago, reniat said:

can you be clear on what you mean by "the other way"? can you show us an example of what you want the output to look like?

I want it like : 

                 T

           E

      S

T

[reniat]

42 minutes ago, BronyPie said:

I want it like : 

                 T

           E

      S

T

You'll have to calculate how many tabs your top line will need before you start printing, and then each character will get 1 less tab until your last which will have 0. In other words, you'll have to go through your entire text before you start printing, so 2 loops (edit: for some reason I was thinking this was broken up into tokens that had to be counted, so you still only need 1 loop).

[BronyPie]

Just now, reniat said:

You'll have to calculate how many tabs your top line will need before you start printing, and then each character will get 1 less tab until your last which will have 0

Okay, so I need it of the string length in which the user inputs it in. Where would I put that in?

[reniat]

1 minute ago, BronyPie said:

Okay, so I need it of the string length in which the user inputs it in. Where would I put that in?

Simplify the problem and then think it through. let's just start with "You". That's 3 characters. How many tabs would be before the Y once you write it out the way it should look?

[BronyPie]

 I need 3 Tabs for the "y", then two for the "o", then one for the "u"

[0x21]

You simply need to invert the count of j. Rather than starting from 0 and increment to h.length() - 1 [inclusive]. You need to start from h.length()-1, decrement integer j and use the integer i as an inset.

int i = 0;
while (i < h.length())
{
  int j = h.length() - 1 - i;
  while (j > 0)
  {
    System.out.print("\t");
    j--;
  }
  System.out.println(h.charAt(i));
  i++;
}

[BronyPie]

4 minutes ago, mshaugh said:

You simply need to invert the count of j. Rather than starting from 0 and increment to h.length() - 1 [inclusive]. You need to start from h.length()-1, decrement integer j and use the integer i as an inset.

int i = 0;
while (i < h.length())
{
  int j = h.length() - 1 - i;
  while (j > 0)
  {
    System.out.print("\t");
    j--;
  }
  System.out.println(h.charAt(i));
  i++;
}

Thank you so much! I understand it now