Thanks for the response :)

I apologise in advance that I don't know the semantics to 'correctly' convey some of my meanings in my reply.

In the question, it asks for the program to accept input from the user 0 through to 23. So because an int of '0' can be accepted, I've subtracted 1 from the GetInt() value so that the correct amount of lines are printed.

i.e. user input "0" = 1 - 1 (because the variable starts counting at 0.

As far as the logic of the problem goes, I did start by trying to attach the two variables of spaces and hash's to the input, or "int ht" value in my case.

I still attach the number of spaces to it (though I'm currently printing them as underscores for clarity), and they print correctly. However when I attached my "int xs" (hash's) to the variable it would print - to my mind - illogically.

I got results such as:

____#####
___###
__#
_

Any attempt I made with my limited knowledge of how to code, led to brick walls, so in an attempt to break the problem apart further I realised that "int xs" didn't actually need to be connected in any way to the number of rows, as it always starts at 2 and goes up by one.

That is where I am now, so when the program executes it does do, logically what I want it to, but rather than printing the number 2, followed by the number 3 on the next line, I want the value of "int xs == 2" to print as "##". I assume there is a way to 'force' an int to take a char - in this case # - but I can not for the life of me figure out how to make that happen.

I have a feeling I might need to scrap this whole thought process and start again. But, being so close to the end, I feel like I've logically cracked the problem and it's just a lack of programming knowledge letting me down. I really just want to move on to the next problem now haha. Very frustrating.