diagonal.java

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class diagonal {
    
    //for loop
    public String diag(int n) {
	int i;
	String result = "";
	int space;
	for (i = 0; i != n; i++){
	    for (space = 0; space < i; space++) {
		result = result + " ";
	    }
	    result = result + "*\n";    
	}
	return result;
    }
    //for loop
    public String diagWord(String w) {
	int i;
	String result = "";
	int space;
	int l = w.length();
	for (i = 0; i != l; i++) {
	    for (space = 0; space < i; space++) {
		result = result + " ";
	    }
	    result = result + w.substring(i, i + 1) + "\n";
	}
	return result;
    }
    
    //for loop
    public String fence(int h, int w) {
	int i;
	String result = "";
	
	result = result + "+"; //Initial fence post
	
	    for (i = 0; i != w; i++){
		result = result + "=";
	    }
	
	result = result + "+\n";
	
	    for (i=0; i != h; i++) { //adding rows of fence
		result = result + "|";
		for (i = 0; i != w; i++){ //add correct number of spaces
		    result = result + " ";
		}
		result = result + "|/n";
	    }
   	
	for (i = 0; i != w; i++){ //bottompart
	    result = result + "=";
	}
	
	result = result + "+";
	return result;
	    }
}