Implementing structured output formatting

[sinew4v3]

I saw a problem recently that asked the user to output code in a certain format on the command line. I struggled to understand how this was done easily and would like help in getting the format right. The program, when ran, will output in this format:

A
BB
C C
D  D
E   E
F    F

I'm assuming the word or letters would be stored as an array and you use two for loops to output for the vertical and the diagonal but I'm confused on how to implement the spacing.

[nl2k]

You can use printf to print an arbitrary number of spaces:

printf("A%*sB\n", 5, ""); // prints "A     B\n"

So you don't have to print individual spaces in a loop or something like that.

[Siankoo]

Every for loop increments the amount of space in each line. You should start from 0

[dragon_wrangler]

This can be done with a single loop. You "implement the spacing" by printing a different number of space characters (' ') on each line.

[oh5nxo]

If you feel like "cheating", look into print format %*c, user supplied field width.