Help Print ASCII Pattern

Question

Hey I'm writing a simple little program that creates a method call printPatterns() that when called should print out two simple patterns:
#However, I'm not exactly sure how to call it in the main method. Here's the code thus far:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.lang.String.*;
public class Patterns {
    public void printPatterns()
    int row=1, j=1;
    char OUTPUT='#';
    System.out.println();
    for (row = 1; row <= 8; row++)
        for (j = 1; j <= row - 1; j++)
            System.out.print(" ");
        for (j = 1; j <= 9 - row; j++)
            System.out.print(OUTPUT);
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println();
    for (row = 1; row <= 8; row++)
        for (j = 1; j <= 9 - row; j++)
            System.out.print(OUTPUT);
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println();
    public void main (String[] args)
        printPatterns test = new printPatterns();
        System.out.print(test);
}

Answer 1

Simply create an object and call its methods.
public class Fubar
    public void foo()
        System.out.println("Foo");
    public static void main(String[] args)
        Fubar myFubar = new Fubar();  // create an object myFubar
        myFubar.foo();                // and call its method foo
}edit: is this spooky or what??? I created my Fubar / foo before I saw the previous post.
Edited by: Encephalopathic on Mar 26, 2008 8:05 PM