i'm not sure how my post is totally irrelevant. perhaps i shouldn't have said that we're on the "topic" of scripting languages, but instead that this is a thread in the c/c++ forum and i'm...

mikeandike22,
did you read the question?

while we're on the topic of scripting languages, here's a dirty hack in python:
l = []
for i in range(1,10):
if i % 2 != 0:
l.append(i)
for i in range(1,6)[::-1]:
print...