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[neomah]

I am not sure if this design was asked by other people.

So this is the design:

-----1-----
----333----
---55555---
--7777777--
-999999999-

And the code I have is this:

for (int i = 1; i <= 9; i = i + 2) {
for (int j = 5 ; j >= i; j--) {
System.out.print("-");
}
for (int j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
System.out.print(+i);
}
for (int j = 5; j >= i; j--) {
System.out.print("-");
}
System.out.println();
}
}
}

But this is my output:

-----1-----
---333---
-55555-
7777777
999999999

EDIT:
I added something on my program:

for (int i = 1; i <= 9; i = i + 2) {
for (int j = 9 ; j >= i; j = j - 2 ) {
System.out.print("-");
}
for (int j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
System.out.print(+i);
}
for (int j = 9; j >= i; j = j - 2) {
System.out.print("-");
}
System.out.println();

And I got it right! Now, my question will be, is there any SIMPLER way of doing this? Because I think what I did was not the real code. But if it is, then thanks anyway!

Thank you :)

[fread]

If by easier, you mean less loops.
Pattern:

• Number prints i amount of times per line
  
• Number of Hyphens are equal on each side, starting at 10, decrementing by 2

        final int maxCharPerLine = 11;
        int maxHyphensPerLine, currentHyphenAmount, numberCount ;

        for(int i = 1; i <= maxCharPerLine; i = i + 2)  /* increment in odd amounts starting at 1 */
        {
            maxHyphensPerLine = maxCharPerLine - i;    /* print this amount of hyphens per line */
            currentHyphenAmount = 0;                   /* Zero on side x thus far */
            numberCount = maxCharPerLine;              /* numberCount unusable at this value */

            for (int j = 1; j <= maxCharPerLine ; j++) /* print this amount of chars on every line */
            {
                if(currentHyphenAmount < maxHyphensPerLine) /* Legal amount for a given side; so print hyphen */
                {
                    System.out.print('-');
                    currentHyphenAmount++;                  /* Increment */

                    /*[COLOR=#ff0000]Key:
                     Test for max hyphen amount on a given side;
                     if max amount is reached; stop printing hypens;
                     switch to printing numbers[/COLOR] */
                    if (currentHyphenAmount == (maxHyphensPerLine / 2))
                    {
                        /* Make the outer if condition fail next time around */
                        currentHyphenAmount = maxHyphensPerLine + 1;
                        numberCount = 0;                          /* Allow numbers to print */
                    }

                }
                else
                if(numberCount <= i && i != maxCharPerLine) /* If the amount of numbers are within legal range */
                {
                    System.out.print(i);
                    numberCount++;                          /* Increment */
                    if (numberCount == i)                   /* Enough numbers have been printed;switch to printing hyphens */
                    {
                        numberCount++;                      /* Make the outer loop fail next time around; switch to printing hypens */
                        currentHyphenAmount = 0;         /* Allow hyphens to print */
                        
                    }

                }
            }
            System.out.println();
        }