[LinxuS]

well I got this so far..:

for(int l = 0; l < num; l++)
{
for (int a = 0; a <= l; a++)
System.out.print(" ");

for (int x = 0; x<=l ; x++)
{
System.out.print("*");
}
System.out.println();

}

but the spaces are in reverse order that they need to be..