C program to print heart star pattern

• Write a C program to print a heart shape star pattern.
• How to draw a Heart on screen using star characters in C.

Heart star pattern program’s output should be:

Required Knowledge

• For Loop
• printf and scanf function in C

C program to print Heart star pattern on screen

#include <stdio.h>  
   
int main() {  
    int i,j, rows;
     
    printf("Enter the number of rows\n");
    scanf("%d", &rows);  
    /* printing top semi circular shapes of heart */
    for(i = rows/2; i <= rows; i+=2){ 
     /* Printing Spaces */
        for(j = 1; j < rows-i; j+=2) {  
            printf(" ");  
        }
        /* printing stars for left semi circle */
        for(j = 1; j <= i; j++){  
            printf("*");  
        }  
        /* Printing Spaces */
        for(j = 1; j <= rows-i; j++){  
            printf(" ");  
        }  
        /* printing stars for right semi circle */
        for(j = 1; j <= i; j++){  
            printf("*");  
        }  
        /* move to next row */
        printf("\n");  
    }  
     
    /* printing inverted start pyramid */
    for(i = rows; i >= 1; i--){  
        for(j = i; j < rows; j++){  
            printf(" ");  
        }  
        for(j = 1; j <= (i*2)-1; j++){  
            printf("*");  
        }  
        /* move to next row */
        printf("\n");  
    }  
   
    return 0;  
}

Output

Enter the number of rows
7
 **   **
**** ****
*********
 *******
  *****
   ***
    *