Need help with Data Structures!

Question

I'm finally in Java 2nd year! I'm working on a problem- have been working for hours but cant seem to get the hang for it. Basically after determining that an integer is odd, and not more than 10- we are supposed to print it this way
    1
             333
          55555
       7777777
    999999999 This is what I've done so far!
public class Numbers {
           public  static int print (int x) {
         String [] L = new String [x.length];
       if (x <= 1) {
        return x;
        else if  (x >= 10 ||  x% 2 != 1)
         System.out.println("Number is greater than 10");
        else
        for (int i = 0;  i < L.length; i ++) {
        System.out.println(x);
        return print (x -2);
      now when I run this program my output is
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
and so on untill
1.
I cant figure out which approach to take next. Tips please!

Answer 1

it doesnt matter, I made it unrecursive, Ill just fix ur code up here:
public class Numbers
public  static int print (int x)
if (x <= 1)      
return x;       
else if  (x >= 10)                 
System.out.println("Number is greater than 10");
else if ( x% 2 != 1)    
System.out.println("Number is even"); 
else
int p = print(x-2);
for (int i = 0;  i < x; i ++)
System.out.print(x);       
System.out.println();           
return p;
}