How to display stars as shown below ?

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I want to display the stars in this way > *
					                       *
					                        *
					                         *
						                      *

But when i tried with the below code i'm getting it as right angle triangle, please can any one help to get the desired answer.

What I have tried:

for ($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)  
            {  
             for ($j=1; $j<=$i; $j++)  
            {  
               echo '* ';  
            }  
               echo "</br>";  
            }

Posted 3-Apr-18 4:09am

1234Amit

Updated 3-Apr-18 5:48am

Christiaan van Bergen

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Christiaan van Bergen · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-03T04:23:00

You want to have an inner loop for creating the spaces. Also, the innerloop has a different count for the spaces, the first one doesn't need to be indented. Here is a version for a console output:

PHP

for ($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)  
{  
    for ($j=2; $j<=$i; $j++)  
        echo ' ';  
    echo '*';
    echo "\r\n";  
}

if you want to output it in HTML you might want to use this version:

PHP

for ($i=1; $i<=4; $i++)  
{  
    for ($j=2; $j<=$i; $j++)  
        echo '&nbsp;';  
    echo '*';
    echo "</br>";  
}

Because in HTML consecutive spaces are ignored.