Hackerrank draw a staircase of length N in php - php

Question

Draw a staircase of height N like this:
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Staircase of height 6, note the last line should have zero spaces.
My solution does not work correctly
function draw($size)
{
for ($i = 1; $i <=$size ; $i++)
{
$spaces = $size-$i;
while ($spaces)
{
echo " ";
$spaces--;
}
$stairs = 0;
while ($stairs < $i)
{
echo "#";
$stairs++;
}
echo "<br/>";
}
}
draw(6);
//output
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It is not printing the spaces, I tried \n, PHP.EOL still it didn't work. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Although other solutions are all good , here is my code as well.
$max=5;
for ( $i =1 ; $i<=$max;$i++) {
for ( $space = 1; $space <= ($max-$i);$space++) {
echo " ";
}
for ( $hash = 1; $hash <= $i;$hash ++ ) {
echo "#";
}
echo "\n";
}

Answer 2

//PHP
$n = 6; // Number of rows.
for($i=1;$i<=$n;$i++){
echo str_repeat(' ', $n-$i) . str_repeat('#', $i);
echo '\n';
}

Answer 3

for(var i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
var s = "";
for(var j = 0; j < n; j++)
{
if(n - i - 2 < j)
{
s += "#";
}
else
{
s += " ";
}
}
console.log(s);
}

Answer 4

for ($i=0; $i<$n; $i++){
for ($j=0; $j<$n; $j++){
if($i+$j>$n-2){
echo "#";
} else {
echo " ";
}
if($j==$n-1 && $i+$j<$n*2-2){ //The second part is to dont break the last line
echo "\n";
}
}
}

Answer 5

Here's another solution:
$int = 7;
for($i = 1; $i<=$int; $i++){
printf('%1$s%2$s%3$s',str_repeat(" ",$int-$i),str_repeat("#",$i),"\n");
}
From official PHP documentation:
str_repeat

Answer 6

$n = 6;
for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
$pad = 1;
for ($space = 0; $space < $n-$i-1; $space++) {
$pad++;
}
echo str_pad('#', $pad,' ',STR_PAD_LEFT);
for ($j = 0; $j < $i; $j++) {
echo '#';
}
echo '<br>';
}

Answer 7

Took me a while but finally I manage to do it following OFC (A. Sharma) Example.
<?php
$handle = fopen("php://stdin","r");
$n = intval(fgets($handle));
for ($rows = 0; $rows < $n; $rows++) {
for ($columns = 0; $columns < $n - $rows - 1; $columns++) {
echo " ";
}
for ($columns = 0; $columns < $rows + 1; $columns++) {
echo "#";
}
echo "\n";
}
?>

Answer 8

Use PHP functions range() and str_repeat() for an elegant solution:
function staircase($n){
foreach (range(1, $n) as $i)
print( str_repeat(' ',$n-$i).str_repeat('#',$i)."\n");
}
demo

Answer 9

Check if n is between 0 and 101 ( 0 < n <= 100)
Loop through each row
2.1 print spaces according to the last item position
2.2 print the items
Separate rows
The code below explains everything...
function staircase($n) {
// check if n is between 0 and 101 (0 < n <=100)
if( 0 < $n && $n > 100 ) {
} else {
// Loop through each row
for($i = 1; $i <= $n; $i++) {
// print spaces according to the last item position
$si = 1;
while( $si <= ($n - $i)){
print(" ");
$si++;
}
// print the items
for($j = 1; $j <= $i; $j++) {
print("#");
}
// separate rows
print("\n");
}
}
}
Output: For n = 6
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Answer 10

After playing around with the code and trying/failing couple of times I finally got it right. Notice how in order to print the space and new line I am using "\n". Previous "<br/>" and " " for space didn't work.
Break line will come out of the loop every row number. So if we have $n=4 then every 4 spaces after break line will be echoed.
I have made 2 loops to fill in all fields in the staircase.
The tricky part here is to have them right aligned. This is where if statement comes in place.
Reference link:
Hackerrank Challenge
// Complete the staircase function below.
function staircase($n) {
for($i=1; $i<=$n; $i++){
for($j=1; $j <= $n; $j++){
if( ($n - $i) < $j ){
echo "#";
}else{
echo " ";
}
}
echo "\n";
}
}

Answer 11

Try This
$n=6;
for($i=1;$i<=$n;$i++){
for($spaces=1;$spaces<=($n-$i);$spaces++){
echo " ";
}
for($staires=0;$staires<$i;$staires++){
echo "#";
}
echo "\n";
}

Answer 12

This worked for me
$n = 6;
function staircase($n) {
for($i=1; $i <= $n; $i++){
for($j=1; $j <= $n; $j++){
if($j > $n-$i){
echo "#";
}else{
echo " ";
}
}
echo "\n";
}
}

Answer 13

Use print(' '), if you want to go to next line put print(' ')."\n"

Answer 14

JavaScript:
Solution:
function StairCase(n){
let x = [];
for(let i = 0; i<n; i++){
while(x.length < n){
x.push(" ");
}
x.shift();
x.push("#");
console.log(x.join(''));
} } //StairCase(6)